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 have a computer programmer friend who was working on Y2K stuff at the time. There was a LOT of work done to prevent computers from crashing. For every computer program, and compiled system that ran something, they had to answer “are we 100% sure it was programmed to not turn off if the date is “00”. “And is it okay if this system turns off?”. And then to find people to learn and reprogram ancient computer languages to fix the systems that the world runs on. Or update and replace them.
The computer people did a good job.
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