• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Y2K would have sucked if people like me didn’t work to head it off. It was an all hands on deck effort across every industry.

    • Midnight@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      I was going to say the same. Funny it gets written off today as a hoax when tons of people had to fix slews of bugs. It could’ve been bad, but fortunately the worst I heard about was some people getting stuck in some elevators.

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 months ago

        Hey, the 486 I used for typing up school papers (and playing Civilization and Master of Magic) got wicked confused. I fixed the issue by telling it not to worry, it was still 1986.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, that doesn’t fit in there at all. Nothing bad happened because of a concerted effort over several years to update potentially affected systems.