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...the fact #Y2K rose to little more than a footnote in the annals of the information age is largely due to the hard work and diligence of armies of IT professionals who spent years working out the best way to deploy a relatively simple fix to computers around the world.

@theregister #Y2K25 #ITHeroes
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/02/twentyfive_years_y2k/

25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then

With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash

The Register

"Bad things would absolutely have happened absent diligent efforts. But it was never going to be as bad as the media made it sound. And because the problem was complicated and poorly understood, you also had loads of grifters and con-artists and highly paid consultants."

The Daily WTF: Y2K25
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/y2k25

#Y2K #Y2K25

Y2K25

Twenty five years ago today, the world breathed a collective sight of relief when nothing particularly interesting happened. Many days begin with not much interesting happening, but January 1st, 2000 was notable for not being the end of the world. I'm of course discussing the infamous Y2K bug. We all know the story: many legacy systems were storing dates with two digits- 80 not 1980, and thus were going to fail dramatically when handling 00- is that 1900 or 2000?

The Daily WTF

“As we launch ourselves into 2025, one of the key issues of the new year will be whether Americans care that the U.S. government does the hard, slow work of governing and, if it does, who benefits.”

#Politics #USPolitics #History #Y2K25 #Technology #Governing #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-1-2025

January 1, 2025

Twenty-five years ago today, Americans—along with the rest of the world—woke up to a new century date…and to the discovery that the years of work computer programmers had put in to stop what was known as the Y2K bug from crashing airplanes, shutting down hospitals, and making payments systems inoperable had worked.

Letters from an American

@fryday Vor einem Vierteljahrhundert wären alle bestens vorbereitet gewesen... (bei uns war vorsorglich die Badewanne gefüllt)

#y2k #y2k25