not_falling_down t1_iy1w1wk wrote
Literally nobody thought that it would be a world-ending problem.
But it most certainly would have been a world-disrupting problem, if not for the massive teams of computer scientists working overtime to fix all the code.
The only reason that nothing much went wrong is because of all the worker-hours spent making all the necessary changes.
mootannie t1_iy23n8r wrote
That's not exactly true. My stepdad thought everything was going to shut down and began disaster prepping that summer. He would also occasionally talk about the pope being the antichrist, so... You know... Not everyone but y2k hysteria definitely affected some people.
not_falling_down t1_iy24r11 wrote
>Not everyone but y2k hysteria definitely affected some people.
Oh, the hysteria was definitely a thing - but what I am saying it that it was not entirely unfounded; things would have been bad if not for a lot of people putting in a lot of time to fix it.
RedneckNerd23 t1_iy2depn wrote
People recognizing a future problem and working hard to fix it before it's too late. Holy fuck what happened
Muroid t1_iy2f19r wrote
They fixed the problem before it appeared so everyone else decided it was a big nothingburger and vowed never to let anyone get them worked up like that over nothing again.
NAND_110_101_011_001 t1_iy2jmgn wrote
If you mean what happened to the world's ability to prevent future problems? It's probably about the same. There's a huge monetary incentive for businesses to maintain the functionality of their critical information systems. There's a monetary disincentive to reduce your own pollution or for society to reduce its consumption for example.
wintremute t1_iy2axax wrote
Literally the only issue I ran into was my parents' VCR thought it was 1973. The day of the week and month stayed correct.
And I was in retail PC repair at the time. No customers had Y2K issues.
Tensor3 t1_iy2i7i8 wrote
My dad was one of them, so I was pretty confident nothing would happen. I just ignored it and went about life like any other day
not_falling_down t1_iy36y30 wrote
And you were only able to do that because of all the behind-the-scenes work that was done ahead of time to fix the issue.
Tensor3 t1_iy3r67o wrote
That's what I was saying. I know of all the work thay was done because my dad was working on it.
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