• @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      The only reason Y2K wasn’t worse was because a shit ton of people were hired to fix it before it happened. I remember folks literally coming to my high school in the late 90s and asking students to learn COBOL so we could help. There was a huge effort to stop it before it happened.

      • @theuberwalrus
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        121 year ago

        This is such a frustrating concept that so many people don’t get. It was a huge issue, that’s why it got fixed before it could cause major damage.

        My dad thinks climate change is overblown because Y2K didn’t break the world.

    • pewter
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      21 year ago

      Is that what some countries call Y2K?