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12-18-2023, 4:13pm | #1 | ||||||
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Who here thinks Y2K was a big hoax?
It wasn't, it was real. Please weigh in with your expert opinion arguing my position.
I can't wait for the "But Igor at the tractor factory in Smolensk had no problems printing shipping labels" argument. |
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Just to be safe, I took the advice of Prince and partied like it was 1999.
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Y2Dems is a bigger problem.....
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Beats me but I saw a lot of stupid people buying generators and survival shit they didn't need
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Was used to working night shift in the IT department alone. Never had so much company. Everybody was there! Other than the huge amount of shrimp cocktail I ate that night it was a big nothing burger.
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No, it was totally fake. The Gateway 2000 desktop I was using at home at the time, with no remediation at all, kept chugging along like nothing had happened.
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No nuclear power plant meltdowns or nuke weapons oops, so that was good. It could have meant some interesting work though.
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Spent most of 99 flying around updating systems.
We had a few nodes so old they didn't work as no updates were available. It was a known so that wasn't a suprise. Guy I knew worked satellites did have some get knocked off line that were very important. They all came back online eventually. Think about this with so much being computer controlled now it would be a nightmare if we were at this level in 99. Imagine the outrage and chaos if Fakebook went down |
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I’m not in IT so no actual numbers. I know power plants, including nukes, were preparing years in advance. No clue how much DoD and DOE spent on nuke weapons infrastructure but I’m sure it was a scary big number. |
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I was the Y2K Program Manager for the Securities & Exchange Commission and responsible for the remediation of the entire agency and ensuring all the investment houses became compliant. Yes, Y2K was real, although the SEC had no failures (after my staff and I worked 14-16 hour days for months) some banks I know for certain had issues that were quietly covered up an fixed quickly once discovered.
My interview on the topic in Government Executive Magazine is about 13 paragraphs down in this article ( or you can just search for "Frank" and "SEC"): https://www.govexec.com/magazine/200...se-of-it/7201/ |
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It was real, and I made a KILLING that year as a consultant. Most money I made in a single year, yet to be surpassed...but I'm close with my current gig.
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One of the sister companies to the one I work for is IT related.
The boss has this as his profile picture. |
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my 1999 and my 2000 vintage hand chisels look remarkably similar.....
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Had a very high sex incident count in 1999, especially in second half, as convinced the wife the world would end on New Year's Day.
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