I was born in 2000. I’ve always heard that Y2K was just dramatics and paranoia, but I’ve also read that it was justified and it was handled by endless hours of fixing the programming. So, which is it? Was it people being paranoid for no reason, or was there some justification for their paranoia? Would the world really have collapsed if they didn’t fix it?
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There were even some systems that never got updated and caused problems later. My daughter was born in CA in 2008. Later I moved to Nebraska for work, and when my son was born (in 2013) we found out that the hospital in NE had my daughter down as a 104 year old woman (her birthday was mistakenly “interpreted” as 1908). This caused all sorts of problems, as my 4 yr old was accidentally auto-enrolled in Medicare – and we had to clear it up on our own time as if a claim had been made, we would have been accused of medical fraud and I could have lost my job!
I jokingly refer to her as “my elderly daughter.” And tell her that, now that she’s 116 she should get her driver’s license….
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