DgarNov 26
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@dgar
As a tech, I kept telling everyone #Y2K was nonsense: "Computers aren't going to crash just b/c they get the date wrong." 🤦‍♂️

The giant Nothing-Burger that Y2K turned out to be made me look like a genius to my friends.

But I nearly got fired when I joked to my boss our first day back that we "were struck by Y2k." It was her worst fear. I couldn't believe how gullible people were. 🤦‍♂️

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@MugsysRapSheet @dgar Y2K wasn’t a joke. Our programmers worked for over 3 years fixing software so nothing would happen. It was time consuming and on the evening before New Years they worked all day and stayed until past midnight to make sure nothing failed. Too many people treat it like it was nothing when it was really a lot of hard work to fix it
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@FaithinBones @dgar
I REPEAT: Dozens of countries DID NOTHING and nothing happened (Russia being one of those countries.)

Their computers didn't crash. Power grids didn't shutdown. Rockets didn't launch.

And it had nothing to do with the efforts of programmers in the U.S. or UK (I was there too.)

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@MugsysRapSheet @FaithinBones @dgar
You are mis-informed
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@nrmacdonald @FaithinBones @dgar
I am?

You mean Y2K caused an accidental nuclear strike from Russia that I missed? 🤦‍♂️

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@MugsysRapSheet @FaithinBones @dgar
You have missed the point.
The potential for widespread catastrophe that you reference was all media hype and silly buggers and no one with a brain took it seriously but no one did nothing.
We that prepared for the change worked hard and long to prevent a cascade of failures some of which could have had significant affects in markets, transport, comms etc.
We did a good job.