Timeline (A Y2K Earth)

31 December, 1999 - Computer companies are getting ready for the next millennium and attempting to adjust their computers to be one day ahead at 12 AM. But, to their surprise, computers from this age aren't quite as advanced to do such new tasks that are easily possible nowadays. This simple bug would lead to a traumatic event for every company in the western world.

1 January, 2000 - Just before midnight, at 11:30 PM, a bug was indicated on some Windows-based PCs that were run by the government of the United States. At first, many government officials passed this off as a glitch that would be fixed very soon, since even though changing time wasn't as advanced as now, it was certainly not as popular either and many users simply let their computers to do the job. So, without any knowledge of what to come, many officials didn't worry about it.

Very shortly though, the computers indicated that the time was "1st January 1900", and it had displayed it this way on almost every part of time on their computers. US officials believed that there were something different going on with this and investigations had to be made. Eventually, after investigating every part of the computer, the US warned officials of dangerous consequences that would occur soon.

Bill Clinton, president of the United States, was awakened by his staff and rushed to their offices to investigate further. On the way they was informed by the officials with "good information" that the computers did in-fact have a bug. They recommended a reboot of all technology currently used by the government and a report to the current president of the United States. Clinton, frail and stunned by the news, nodded and gave a full reboot to all used technology.

Eight and one-half seconds later, a full reboot was given to all data that was currently controlled by the United States government. Nearly 30% of controlled data was somehow corrupted by the fake time and could not work saying it had been running and cannot run on "obsolete software". A few seconds later the number extended to 40%, and then 50%, until it reached 60%.

One minute later, tech companies noticed how their software was doing in the new millennium. It was, without a doubt to them, a complete embarrassment and something in need of updating. Staff from companies like Intel and Microsoft requested a check on the computers to see what was going wrong. Intel and Microsoft were the most eager to help since their technology were the most common of all.

Meanwhile as the White House computers were being infected by what they called a virus that could lead to the end of the United States, they received a chilling request. According to the report, Intel and Microsoft staff wanted to come in and check the computers. Quickly checking, American staff discovered that the first targets that were supposed to have been infected minutes earlier, showed NO proper virus thus leaving the computers secure.

Clinton accepted the request while on the phone with Microsoft and Intel staff as long as they could make it quick. A few minutes later, the staff arrived and checked each computer. They reported that the time was set wrong, but unfortunately, it can't be changed as easily and could take up to four hours to fix every file, AND the settings on each computer.

And then, the Y2K Bug infects. Over a period of a minute and a half, going until about 11:58 PM, over three hundred computer files were infected all across the early Internet and North American computers. British PCs, having the same problem as with the American ones, didn't have much better either. Multiple tech companies were asked to help, but the same response as the United States got was given time after time.

Neither Government nor Hardware/Software companies nor any other citizen was given much warning of the virus. Some computers did receive alerts and while even Tech Support scrambled to find any sort of thing they could do, they lost communication in less than three minutes,

Because of all of this, 70% of the electronics across the Northern Hemisphere. Radios, televisions, etc. were all blacked out and couldn't be restored again.

Over 500 million people lost their access to their computer and the internet...from the United States, to Canada, across to Australia, South America, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and some parts of New Zealand. Most citizens there lost their access and had to find other ways to advance human life.