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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One of the jobs I had in 99 was y2k abatement. Was it overblown? That answer only comes with hindsight. At the time, I don’t think it would be called a panic, but there were going to be some complications.
Remember the crowdstrike thing that cause all that shit a couple of months ago? Imagine if that affected 3 times as many systems. Is it a crippled world? Not really but it would cost a lot of money and time.
At the time the easy answer was to upgrade your computers since the pentium processors were y2k free (the 486’s were not). So big companies just upgraded all computer, something they regularly do anyway.
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