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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For banking it was a big deal. Maybe wouldn’t crash an airplane but potentially would lead to lots of other difficult to diagnose errors that would cascade forward. Even in 2020 there are still cases where glitches pop up (e.g., the woman who has trouble booking an airline ticket because she’s over 100). Back in the 90s, there would be millions of people affected. E.g., imagine being born around 1920 (you’d be around 70 in the 1990s) and weird things would start breaking. For government workers, 55 was the minimum retirement age and the switch would cause issues.
I got my first job because of the Y2k hiring boom.
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