Y2K revisited
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wrote on 8 Jan 2025, 16:04 last edited by
‘All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it’: the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on
Planes were going to drop out of the sky, nuclear reactors would explode. But then … nothing. What really happened with Y2K? People still disagree …
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wrote on 8 Jan 2025, 16:22 last edited by
Two programs quit working after Y2K - my Daytimer contact/scheduling program and a home automation program called X-10 Powerhouse.
I never replaced either one.
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wrote on 8 Jan 2025, 19:35 last edited by
I had a dos database program that I used for client and billing info... It got confused, but kept on working. Probably stopped using that about 10 yrs ago when I updated to an online system.
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wrote on 8 Jan 2025, 22:01 last edited by
I was in the thick of the massive development effort that made sure no catastrophe happened. Billions of dollars spent, but it should have been addressed over the preceding two decades.