[scbrg]

> I believe the most spectacular event is going to be the Unix timestamp 2 000 000 000 which is still 9½ years away: 2033-05-18 03:33:20 UTC. Such an event occurs only once every 33 years 8 months approximately!

Egads! 33 years! I spent my late 90:ies mudding[0] and for some reason we had a lot of save files named by their epoch timestamp. When I ended up responsible for parts of the code base, I spent a lot of time dealing with those files, and they were all in the 800- or 900- million range. At some point I was pretty much able to tell at a glance roughly what date any number in that range corresponded to, within perhaps a few weeks.

Weird environments foster weird super powers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user_dungeon

[twic]

The only reference point i have is that the millennium was very roughly around 1000000000. And that's only because of an agonising C/Prince pun in NTK [1]:

"Tonight I'm gonna party like it's (time_t) 1E9"

[1] http://www.ntk.net/2001/02/23/

[tingletech]

I went to an EFF billion second party 2001-09-08 in golden gate park and then the next week was 9/11.

[basilgohar]

I don't know whether to thank or revile you for sharing that link. I've never heard of NTK before and I was at once amazed at something that tickled me so and also realizing it's no longer around. Now I feel sad.

[twic]

It was so good. But then, the web was young, and everything was. You are quite right to feel sad. I know this doesn't help.

[Etheryte]

That pun is horrendous beyond belief, I love it.