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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I worked in a team developing large software products. We developed tools to run through every line of code looking for dates and rolled out a patch for the very few jnstances where we found two digit years. And then the whole team gave up New Year to be on hand if there were any calls. There weren’t, and we all had pizza.
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