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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My parents ran a small service company and our systems “crashed” before 1/1/00 when some of the bookkeeping software started putting dates out there into the new year. They spent tens of thousands on software and outside IT labor to get back on track. It was all resolved and running before the millennium changed but it was definitely a real problem.
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