Y2K was rapidly approaching and I had a 5 hour solo New Year’s Eve Gig at a very nice senior community in Delray Beach.
Back in the day, I was a One-Woman orchestra with several MIDI devices synchronized that gave my keyboard the sound of a sixteen piece Jazz Band.
This was before Keyboards were equipped with hundreds of Rhythms, and the synchronization of my devices (including drum machines, keyboards, and 3.5” Floppy Drives) had to be in perfect synch. As I watched the ball slide down the pole, I wondered if my “Rig” would crash at the stroke of midnight, just when I was supposed to launch into “Auld Lang Syne”.
Of course, NOTHING happened, the song went off without a hitch, and I was relieved.
But I was also furious that our entire country had fussed and worried about this for nearly a YEAR, and it was all a hoax.
Just Like Acid rain, The Hole in The Ozaone layer, Globull Warming, and Peaceful islam.
I'm impressed!
“But I was also furious that our entire country had fussed and worried about this for nearly a YEAR, and it was all a hoax.”
It was a real issue. But a lot of hard work by talented IT people made it turn out to be a non issue.
That is why I didn’t worry about it; I had confidence that Americans were smart enough to fix it; and we had a lot of time to prepare.
It wasn't a hoax. The IT industry spent several years fixing it.
People think it was a hox because we were actually successful.