[be-baw]

My employer probably spent $2M+ to avoid Y2K catastrophe. I still think it all was a big scam. Off the top of my head, the only bigger scam is climate change.

[TexasGator]

“I still think it all was a big scam. “

Obviously you know nothing about the y2k problem ...

[deadrock]

It was not a scam from the programming side. Legacy programs on IBM mainframes had to be reprogrammed and recompiled to expand the "year" field from 2 to 4 bytes.

If it was not done, there was the potential for a customer to be charged on their utility bill for over 100 years of utility usage.

As they stood, programs could not tell the difference between 1900 and 2000.

[RedwM]

Wait. till the year 2525. That will be sumpthin.