The hit counter approaches 100,000... end of the world?

I used to work in the computer software business.  Back in the mid-1980s, I instructed all the Cobol programmers who worked for me to convert all two digit years in their programs to four digit, as I'm sure every other software business did.   We all knew the year 2000 was approaching, and date math wouldn't work with two digit years.  The year 2000 would be 00.

I remember attending a computer users' group meeting many years later when I owned a business that built and sold PCs.   It was in the fall of 1999.  There were two speakers, another computer guy and myself.   The other guy went first.   He suggested that everyone buy guns if they didn't have any because they were going to need them.  All computers would stop working, the grid would go down, satellites would fall from the skies, communications would cease, and mass rioting and chaos would be the result.

I, of course, disagreed with him.

When my blog counter reaches 100,000, what will happen?   Did Google instruct its programmers to allow for six digit hit counts?   Will the counter simply read 00,000?   Certainly, a company such as Google prepared for that, as competent as they are, but if that happens there will no doubt chaos and rioting in the streets.  

I suspect the blog counter will hit 100,000 around noon.   Let me know if the lights dim in your neighborhood.

I suggest that if you don't own a gun or a really good crossbow, that you hie yourself to the closest arms dealer and prepare yourself.

As for the prize for being the 100,000th visitor?   I don't have any way to track that....  so I'll tell you what.   Everyone who follows this blog can consider himself/herself a winner.   Stop by Brunswick Landing Marina or Bleecker Mountain and hook up with us.   The victory beer is on me.