What do you mean “hoax”
I have been in this bunker for 19 years.
Can I come out now???
It was early 1999, and the young COBAL programmer could take no more. He was sooo tired of making sure every system went from two- to four-digit dates he couldn’t stand it. Nervous and fearful, he went to a cryogenics lab to be frozen for 10 years, until all the Y2K chaos and fervor was over.
He awoke to an army of folks surrounding his container - all dressed really weirdly, some appeared to be floating, with all kind of devices, some of which appeared to be television cameras, complete with 3D laser holograms of him being projected in the air.
He motioned for water, and croaked in a very weak voice, “Wow, who would have thought that things would be so different in 2009?”
“Well, there was a little glitch in your chamber...”, a spokesman said, “It’s 9999, and you’re the only COBAL programmer left to help us go to 5 digits.”