Why Did Everyone Care About Y2K
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Date: 2024-04-26
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Skummeh2
I worked at a data center during this time period and the only thing that broke was our electronic door system. The date rolled back to 1900 so all of our door access codes were created in the future and weren't accepted. Fortunately we had physical key backups. We put all the codes back in fresh and went about our business. None of the servers or applications we used had any issues after applying any fixes that the vendors provided. This limited impact was thanks to the massive effort put in by many to ensure continued operation of systems worldwide.
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I worked at a data center during this time period and the only thing that broke was our electronic door system. The date rolled back to 1900 so all of our door access codes were created in the future and weren't accepted. Fortunately we had physical key backups. We put all the codes back in fresh and went about our business. None of the servers or applications we used had any issues after applying any fixes that the vendors provided. This limited impact was thanks to the massive effort put in by many to ensure continued operation of systems worldwide.
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sarahcoleman5269
My father was working (what is now called IT) in a major international corporation in 1999. I remember him telling me that the problem wasn't going to be the end of the world, but it was important to update a lot of computers. He was extremely stressed out and working overtime to get all the computers changed, but his team actually got everything done about a week before New Years, so, thankfully, the world still has baby powder.
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My father was working (what is now called IT) in a major international corporation in 1999. I remember him telling me that the problem wasn't going to be the end of the world, but it was important to update a lot of computers. He was extremely stressed out and working overtime to get all the computers changed, but his team actually got everything done about a week before New Years, so, thankfully, the world still has baby powder.
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backwoodsmodified
It very well could have been a doomsday scenario. I was part of a small team that confirmed hundreds of thousands of business, financial, banking, credit, and payment systems were going to purge if not patched.
We created and distributed over 250, 000 3. 5 floppy disk updates ourselves.
If no preparations had been made before January 1st 2000, it could have cost the economy in the USA alone trillions.
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It very well could have been a doomsday scenario. I was part of a small team that confirmed hundreds of thousands of business, financial, banking, credit, and payment systems were going to purge if not patched.
We created and distributed over 250, 000 3. 5 floppy disk updates ourselves.
If no preparations had been made before January 1st 2000, it could have cost the economy in the USA alone trillions.
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tubaterry
Even on the modern cloud systems I work on, when you’re talking in the scale of millions of users, it can take a lot of maintenance work to keep up to date. With the combined salary of the team doing the work, it absolutely adds up quick. Wall Street would absolutely spend millions, without a second thought, on getting away from Y2K!
(Plz slow down the release cycle Kubernetes people I’m so tired lol)
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Even on the modern cloud systems I work on, when you’re talking in the scale of millions of users, it can take a lot of maintenance work to keep up to date. With the combined salary of the team doing the work, it absolutely adds up quick. Wall Street would absolutely spend millions, without a second thought, on getting away from Y2K!
(Plz slow down the release cycle Kubernetes people I’m so tired lol)
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Makoto03
I remember Y2k. I was alittle over 10 when the hysteria around that happening when the clock struck midnight at 2000. What made it slightly scary was i remember legit news stations covering it like it might actually happen.
I wasn't so scared as much as confused. Also happy my parents didn't buy into it and wasted money on survival kit nonsense or something. lol
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I remember Y2k. I was alittle over 10 when the hysteria around that happening when the clock struck midnight at 2000. What made it slightly scary was i remember legit news stations covering it like it might actually happen.
I wasn't so scared as much as confused. Also happy my parents didn't buy into it and wasted money on survival kit nonsense or something. lol
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nazfan01
I was an military aviation surveillance computer software programmer during the 1990s to 2005. When they said the computer would not recognixe the year 2000, I laughed at this Y2K hype. I knew this was nothing. We were already installing GPS systems in jets and helicopters in the mid-1990s. We were way ahead of technology anyway.
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I was an military aviation surveillance computer software programmer during the 1990s to 2005. When they said the computer would not recognixe the year 2000, I laughed at this Y2K hype. I knew this was nothing. We were already installing GPS systems in jets and helicopters in the mid-1990s. We were way ahead of technology anyway.
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btetschner
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating LUNCHABLES PIZZA WITH PEPPERONI. while watching this Weird History video!
Lunchables is perfect for Y2K!
From the Weird History video How Lunchables Were Made By And For The 90s
This Lunchables has a Fruit Punch CapriSun and a fun size Crunch bar.
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Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
Eating LUNCHABLES PIZZA WITH PEPPERONI. while watching this Weird History video!
Lunchables is perfect for Y2K!
From the Weird History video How Lunchables Were Made By And For The 90s
This Lunchables has a Fruit Punch CapriSun and a fun size Crunch bar.
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jeffaltier5582
The Surviving Doomsday books became an entire industry-- kind of like the 2012 world ending genre. I think I read one and quit because I was laughing too hard to take it seriously. Bunkers and years worth of canned goods and seeds to grow radishes in the coming Armageddon were the norm.
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The Surviving Doomsday books became an entire industry-- kind of like the 2012 world ending genre. I think I read one and quit because I was laughing too hard to take it seriously. Bunkers and years worth of canned goods and seeds to grow radishes in the coming Armageddon were the norm.
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triadmad
I was the computer guy at the survey/engineering company I worked for, because I was the first guy in the office to replace a hard drive or add memory to a computer several years before. Microsoft put out a Y2k patch that I installed on all the computers that could have been affected.
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I was the computer guy at the survey/engineering company I worked for, because I was the first guy in the office to replace a hard drive or add memory to a computer several years before. Microsoft put out a Y2k patch that I installed on all the computers that could have been affected.
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daveschmarder-1950
In 1999 I worked for an industrial electronic parts store. In late 1999 a lady walked in bringing in an old mantle clock. She was worried that Y2K would do something to it. I explained why she had no problem and she could rest assured that her clock would still work.
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In 1999 I worked for an industrial electronic parts store. In late 1999 a lady walked in bringing in an old mantle clock. She was worried that Y2K would do something to it. I explained why she had no problem and she could rest assured that her clock would still work.
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brj_han
Y2K was the milestone of how gullible the public could be.
All of my machines and software was Y2K compliant. (Many programs I wrote used a base of 1980 to do date calculations, so will fail in 2081. They can complain all they want when it happens, lol.
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Y2K was the milestone of how gullible the public could be.
All of my machines and software was Y2K compliant. (Many programs I wrote used a base of 1980 to do date calculations, so will fail in 2081. They can complain all they want when it happens, lol.
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Puerco-Potter
Back then, when we used to solve problems like this and the ozone hole, instead of bickering about it on twitter and having a staggering large group of people denying the problem existing at all.
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Back then, when we used to solve problems like this and the ozone hole, instead of bickering about it on twitter and having a staggering large group of people denying the problem existing at all.
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samhuntley344
I had to show up to work for my office job on Jan 1, 2000. They ordered bagels and I ended up stacking old print out reports to be sent for off site storage.
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I had to show up to work for my office job on Jan 1, 2000. They ordered bagels and I ended up stacking old print out reports to be sent for off site storage.
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HippieSoul77
I remember this. I had bought a few gallons of water just in case but otherwise it was wait and see. It seems like a lifetime ago I made so many mistakes
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I remember this. I had bought a few gallons of water just in case but otherwise it was wait and see. It seems like a lifetime ago I made so many mistakes
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dm203
i always think that y2k is too overblown. just because of a year. my PC at that time kept working fine. no issue at all. people loves to make others to panick.
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i always think that y2k is too overblown. just because of a year. my PC at that time kept working fine. no issue at all. people loves to make others to panick.
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mikenixon2401
Seems silly now. I knew people who had end times level food storage and defense arsenals. I took a wait and see approach. Sure glad I didn't panic.
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Seems silly now. I knew people who had end times level food storage and defense arsenals. I took a wait and see approach. Sure glad I didn't panic.
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chee6060
I was not worried at all, or cared about it & I know plenty of people were the same way. so don't put up everyone was worried or cared about it.
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I was not worried at all, or cared about it & I know plenty of people were the same way. so don't put up everyone was worried or cared about it.
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vizuz
If another Y2K ever comes up I'm sure the pharmaceutical industry will have a perfectly adequate vaccine for it to protect us from it
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If another Y2K ever comes up I'm sure the pharmaceutical industry will have a perfectly adequate vaccine for it to protect us from it
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