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. 🤦‍♂️

Show threadIchinin   ✅🎯🙄Nov 26
@MugsysRapSheet @dgar It because a nothingburger because of people putting in lots of hours in the late 1999.
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@Ichinin @dgar
Dozens of countries did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to "prevent Y2K" and nothing happened there either.

It was always nonsense. We didn't avoid "Armageddon" b/c we prepared.

Show threadComrade Weez
@MugsysRapSheet rubbish. The problem was concentrated on servers, connectivity widgets and embedded systems, which were produced in and/or operated in computing 1st world nations. What we did in the big companies flowed downhill to the 'nations which did nothing' in your uninformed opinion. srsly, stop making a fool of yourself or the actual techos will keep pointing at you and rolling our eyes at 600rpm. @Ichinin @dgar
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@weezmgk @Ichinin @dgar
The only person making a fool of themselves would be anyone suggesting we didn't run about a million tests pre-Y2K.

It wasn't hard. We simply set the time on the computer to 12/31/99 11:59:55pm and waited 5 seconds.

It's idiotic to think America "saved the world" by fixing a few Servers.

Show threadComrade WeezNov 26
@MugsysRapSheet there's a reason dgar blocked you. You are a clown. Your innocently dopey claim is not even wrong. I'm not here to educate a home computer user on the ins-and-outs of server and networking operation, you can go learn that yourself. NB: If you are not at least 60 years old, you weren't even there. Bye now. @Ichinin @dgar
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@weezmgk @Ichinin @dgar
I was there. I'm 58.

And a computer tech for over 40 years.