A Y2K bug in BSD 2.11 managed to avoid detection when the millennium changed, according to Hackaday. The obsolete Unix variant apparently harbored a date-handling issue that slipped past the comprehensive Y2K remediation efforts of 1999 and 2000. It's a quirky footnote to computing history—proof that even during the most paranoid tech audit in memory, something always gets overlooked.

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