@hacks4pancakes oh you missed one of my personal favorites.
Organisers taking the mailing list to use for their business which happened at eldest's TKD comp.
@malwaretech this is just a dog whistle. The last cohort to do national service are 85+ (My Dad's age, he was in group that they stretched out to 2 years).
It sounded like a vaguely plausible threat during the early part of Thatcher's time when unemployment was 10%. But reality is it's cheaper for them to have people paying to go to uni than pay them to be trained (badly) in the military.
in the 70s early 80s our dad's had done NS, and our teachers, and the older ones were WW2 veterans
@tychotithonus
we started y2k fixes on systems in the early 90s. At least we did on my systems. All those people using 2char years either moved over to systems with real(better) date support. Or kludged together fixes that hopefully will hold to whatever arbitrary split date they used.
I saw labs of data loggers opened to check the version on the PROMs while they were all the same part externally half of them would fail come Y2K.
Many of the big ERP projects of the late 90s were y2k fixes
Pseudo Nym