What was worst case scenario if we hadn’t addressed Y2K?
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I’m sure you could find lots of examples of specific bugs in specific products that were avoided due to adequate Y2K preparation, but as a whole there is no central register of every issue or much research into what the cascading side-effects could have been. A such there isn’t really any way to determine what the worse case scenario would have been. Very vaguely there was the possible threat of broken financial systems and whole economies.
I mean part of the problem was that a lot of companies didn’t really know what if any of their software would be impacted by Y2K, or what the consequences would have been for them. I’m sure lots of companies spent tonnes on auditing their code only to find no bugs, or only minor cosmetic issues.
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