Here's a interesting thing....
http://mentalfloss.com/article/26316/wh ... er-31-1969
Why Does My Gadget Say It's December 31, 1969?
If you’ve ever had the date on a cell phone, iPod, or computer software mysteriously switch to December 31, 1969, you may have thought it was simply random. However, the answer to this question is a bit of computer trivia.
Unix, the computer operating system used on most servers, workstations and mobile devices, was launched on January 1, 1970, making that date its “epoch date.” What this means is that time began for Unix at midnight on January 1, 1970. Time measurement units are counted from the epoch so that the date and time of events can be specified without question. If a time stamp is somehow reset to 0 and displayed in local time, users will see December 31, 1969 — the day before Unix’s creation.
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This has never happened to me... 
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It just does sometimes. You need to avoid saying anything indicating you are from the future or they'll straitjacket you.Bella Fortuna wrote:This has never happened to me...
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Scrumple wrote:It just does sometimes. You need to avoid saying anything indicating you are from the future or they'll straitjacket you.Bella Fortuna wrote:This has never happened to me...
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Just got me thinking about the consequences of time travel. Have people changed so radically in their cognition's since the advent of the internet new tech etc that even a visit back to the eighties would create real 'life threatening' differences in perspective rather than just awkward moments?
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This is the basis of the "Y2K bug" that totally panicked the IT industry (and led to a lot of us techies getting shitloads of overtime! 
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To avoid half the world suddenly finding themselves wearing ghastly flares at midnight on NYE 1999, they paid triple time to those of us that provided 24/7 coverage!
I was happy to do this for the sake of your fashion credibility!
)To avoid half the world suddenly finding themselves wearing ghastly flares at midnight on NYE 1999, they paid triple time to those of us that provided 24/7 coverage!
I was happy to do this for the sake of your fashion credibility!
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The summer when I had finished school, and was about to go to University. Still a virgin, a schoolboy awaiting a metamorphosis into a hippie butterfly...
My first joint, and first fuck, awaited me in a dimly sensed future...
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Same year I graduated. We were known by our year numbers back then, and I was happily a "69er" throughout high school.JimC wrote:The summer when I had finished school, and was about to go to University. Still a virgin, a schoolboy awaiting a metamorphosis into a hippie butterfly...
My first joint, and first fuck, awaited me in a dimly sensed future...
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