[BitWielder1]

Y2K was a real problem, but hyped up to the stratosphere.
A lot of people worked to make sure that nothing would happen and lo and behold, nothing did.
The Y2K work was not a failure, it was a success.
The failure was in the hype and the bogus letdown.

[chrisser]

Y2K was a real problem, but hyped up to the stratosphere. A lot of people worked to make sure that nothing would happen and lo and behold, nothing did. The Y2K work was not a failure, it was a success. The failure was in the hype and the bogus letdown.

That, and most companies finished months ahead of schedule with their preparations, and then figured out they could attach "Y2K" to just about any project and get management funding.

So many projects got done under the Y2K flag that the entire consulting industry had crashed by the end of Feb 2000 - most busineses either had no money left, had no projects pending, or both.