Y2K, the day nothing happened.......LOL!
Fear Porn!
Y2K gave our corporations the all-powerful “Chief Technology Officer”.
A VERY-well paid on-line gamer.
Y2K hysteria did exactly what it was intended to do, distract us from thinking about the 2000 anniversay of Christ, who is the cornerstone of Western Civilization.
I was on a task force at my institution and worked for almost a year and a half on this Y2K issue...we tested our applications, and we had the major one for our institution that was a homegrown mainframe MUMPS application originally written in 1978 that was definitely going to have issues, and we were easily able to replicate the issues, it would have affected everything, billing, scheduling...everything.
If we hadn’t gone through all we did, it would have been catastrophic for us.
We had to do a lot of major work to remediate those issues, so...when the time came, nothing happened. I am sure that, to those who weren’t immersed in it outside of IT, it was a great big huge nothing-burger, but to me, I suffered greatly with analysis and testing for a long time.
Being in Healthcare, we had to be certain we had the bases covered on it.
“Y2K, the day nothing happened.......LOL!”
Because required mods were performed.
# Y2K, the day nothing happened.......LOL!
At the time, I worked for a multinational telecommunications company. I can tell you 100% for certain that our stuff =would= have broken hard if we’d not done remediation. We proved it definitively in our lab. Time synchronization was critical for being able to cut CDRs (Call Detail Records) for billing. Also, the actual switches would have gone off-line.
Nothing happened precisely because we spent a lot of effort to make sure nothing happened.
Because a lot of people worked their asses off, so that nothing did happen.