[jbarntt]

It didn’t cause major problems because a lot of IT folks spent a lot of time to make sure everything was patched up and tested.

Where I worked, every PC, (mostly W95), had the BIOS tested and fixed, if needed. Older OSen, like Netware 3.11, 4.10, and 4.11 were updated and tested. Remember synthetic time on Netware when you rolled the date into the future, and then rolled it back, (NDS) ?

Accounting software had to be tested also, dates are pretty important in that regard.

It was a big deal.

[Islander2]

Many good replies concerning the end of civilization, but with all due respect I think it will probably end as depicted in the following video.
Mahalo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIgIWL-qElM

[Company Man]

I would like to add my voice to the others that have stated that the Y2K event was not as destructive as feared, only because it was taken seriously, and that thousands of man hours and billions of dollars were spent re-mediating systems in advance of its occurrence. It really steams me when no-nothings call it a hoax, or ridicule the herculean effort which prevented major disruptions.