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[oftemptation.livejournal.com]

As this came up elsewhere...

Of those of us who hail from...2005 or later, how many of you know about the following:

- Pluto's Kiss
- The First and Second Network Crises
- Altimit OS

I'll explain, for those who are unfamiliar with them...

Pluto's Kiss was a catastrophic computer virus that was released in 2005...it took down the entire network, and very nearly led to nuclear war. This event was called the First Network Crisis, and the only operating system that wasn't affected was Altimit, which came to be the only one used for quite some time...

The Second Network Crisis took place several years after that...it was a complicated situation. The result was almost identical, however...

Comments

[kingside]

"Nuclear war?"

[oftemptation.livejournal.com]

Yes...I'm afraid I don't know the entire basis for how they work, but...they would have caused a lot of death had they been released. In both cases.

[kingside]

Ah. And I'm also from 2018, but I don't think you use the Imperial Calendar.

[feartehreaper.livejournal.com]

Obviously not... nuclear weapons were used in the 1940's.

[kingside]

I doubt the year they debuted was as significant to their development as the politics of the world at the time. From that standpoint, though, it's still obvious.

[feartehreaper.livejournal.com]

Whatever, that was my point. It's still weird to hear someone claim not to know what nuclear weapons are though... a lot of people died back then you know.

[kingside]

Of course it was. And it I don't suppose you're more familiar with these weapons than your friend is? Could you briefly explain how they work?

[feartehreaper.livejournal.com]

Geez...

I'm pretty sure the way the weapons are made have changed too, but... basically, they use a chain reaction with a type of radioactive material - uranium? - to create a really big explosion that leaves a lot of radiation behind. I think it's fission? Maybe fusion, or both. The aftereffects are just as deadly as the initial attack. It's horrible.

There has to be someone who could explain it better.

[kingside]

Ah. Thank you.

[stiffserpent.livejournal.com]

I don't know any of the scientific details, but I can tell you a little about the history, if you want to know.

[kingside]

That won't be necessary.

[you won't be able to tell, but he almost wrote 2012]

[guyslikegames.livejournal.com]

I'm from 2011 and I've never heard of any of that.

Re: [you won't be able to tell, but he almost wrote 2012]

[oftemptation.livejournal.com]

I...I'm not surprised. Not anymore... Thank you.

[superdynamic.livejournal.com]

2018, and I haven't heard of those things either. Sorry.

[oftemptation.livejournal.com]

I see...

[emotionl4arobot.livejournal.com]

I'm from much later than that, but none of those events are familiar to me. No doubt due to the differences between our realities, though it could equally be due to how little is known about my Earth's ancient history.

- Brainiac 5

[mind-the-sukima.livejournal.com]

It was 2008 last I looked outside and I've never heard of these. I'm not much one for computers, but nuclear war sounds like something I'd have heard of.
-Violet

[stiffserpent.livejournal.com]

As technology progresses, the chances of something like that happening becomes more and more likely, even with the decommissioning at the end of the Cold War. It's an endless arms race between hackers and developers. The curse of the Digital Age.

[haplesstracker.livejournal.com]

2007, and I think we would have noticed something like that. At the very least I'd have lost my YouTube connection.