We knew that the problem was already solved, but the media kept leaning into the sensational doomerism. That was the first time in my life that I realized that the media might not be unbiased or truthful.

My bank said that like 20% of their clients emptied their accounts lol

Boycotting Corona beer? Here in Germany I have heard that their sales went up when Corona happened.

On December 31, 1999 I saw a truck loaded up with possessions and “HEADED TO THE HILLS GOOD LUCK EVERYONE” painted on the side.

December 31st 1999, I was at a house party in Lexington, KY. We had a few radio stations playing for ambiance. Once we realized that at least 2 were playing Prince “Party like it’s 1999,” we tuned as many radios as we could. Turned out that 6 stations ended 1999 with Prince, and started 2000 with “It’s the end of the world as we know it,” by REM.

No, it was a forbidden love story between a man and his stapler.

Millions of man hours spent preventing a total disaster, and the only recognition they got was that movie. It’s the epitome of “When you do things right people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

Probably scared it would crash on y2k

A lot of software was updated prior to y2k to be able to cope with dates. But the transition was still difficult for some software.

Save all your data. You can just never turn it on again 🤪

Y2K is treated like a tempest in a teapot, but it really only was that way because of a lot of work behind the scenes to make it so.

At the end of the day the worst thing that happened to my family was that Dad had to buy a new version of Quicken, because our old copy of 4.0 didn’t support 4-digit years… But imagine if that was every Fortune 500 and state government that suddenly couldn’t process payroll or invoices, or if power plants or water treatment systems stopped being able to control electronic systems because of a date/time mismatch between the SCADA systems and the operators’ terminals? Y2K was a non-issue because a lot of people spent a lot of time going through a lot of code to be sure that critical systems would continue to work as expected.

That “outdated” programming language still runs large parts of the world economy and administration. Cobol will survive humanity, it’s like a cockroach.