human
I've been hearing about the Y2K problem. What exactly is it?
assistant
The Y2K problem is a problem that was caused by the fact that computers were not programmed to handle dates after the year 2000. If you had a computer in the 1980s, then there was a chance that it would crash when you tried to enter a date in the year 2000. This could be very bad if you were trying to do something important like pay your bills or book a flight.