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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“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” — Futurama.
The fact we got through mostly unscathed made some people doubt the seriousness of the risk, but that neglected the truely massive amounts of work that went into making it that way. Most systems would have been fine, but the phone system, many large systems for insurance companies, the government, and public utilities would have had serious problems.
It’s like wondering why they spend so much money on the levy when the town hasn’t flooded in years. Why we work so hard to immunize kids, when they can’t recall an American even getting polio….
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