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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At the time I was working in the Y2K team for British Rail. One very significant problem that arose was with the locomotive maintenance system, which was extremely old technology – before Y2K, it worked but was certain to fail afterwards. If nothing had been done to fix it, all locomotives on the rail network would be shown as “maintenance overdue” and wouldn’t have been allowed to run on the tracks, as that system reported to a load of other systems involved in running the railway.
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