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It’s true, but I really understand why many people don’t think it was a real thing. LOL, if I hadn’t had to immerse myself so deeply in it for so long and unpleasantly, I might have thought so too.

I frikking hated it...we had multi-week meetings with up to forty people at it, and gad...I remember thinking “Come on-why can’t we just FIX the issue?”

Well, we couldn’t just “fix” it, it was wormed so far down in this legacy application that rooting out all the branches was a real chore. I learned a lot during that year and a half, I can tell you. I worked side by side with one of the two women who actually wrote most of the program, and that was invaluable to me.

From her, I learned everything about how to draw up and execute a comprehensive and bulletproof test plan, which means that I own that to this day...:) She warned me, too. She said nobody likes doing this part of the job, and if I was good at it, I would get “volunteered”...which is what happened. It can be nasty and tedious, but it is great when you can do it well enough so that when you go live with a new system or an upgrade, it isn’t as “exciting” as it can sometimes be without a good testing regimen!

Part of the Y2K thing was, that the years of hysteria leading up to it DID make people think everything was going to go dark or become non-functional.

I was one of those people who were up all night watching things...and boy, was I relieved.

I was glad it was perceived as a nothing-burger!