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Haven't heard anything from Y2K for quite a while.

Papa Willie wrote:About this time 20 years ago that we all started worrying a pretty good bit about that Y2K stuff? Hard to believe it’s been that long.

Talk about a grand example of media overhype...

It wasn't media overhype, you fat fucking retard. It was a very serious issue that had been forewarned (and ignored) in the late 1950's. That there were few serious problems when 1/1/2000 finally rolled around was not due to the situation having been overhyped, it was due to corporations and governments mobilizing large numbers of programmers to fix code in the last couple/few years of the 20th century before it became an issue.

This was around the time that I entered the I/T field, and unlike you, I do know what I'm talking about.

Goober McTuber wrote:

Papa Willie wrote:About this time 20 years ago that we all started worrying a pretty good bit about that Y2K stuff? Hard to believe it’s been that long.

Talk about a grand example of media overhype...

It wasn't media overhype, you fat fucking retard. It was a very serious issue that had been forewarned (and ignored) in the late 1950's. That there were few serious problems when 1/1/2000 finally rolled around was not due to the situation having been overhyped, it was due to corporations and governments mobilizing large numbers of programmers to fix code in the last couple/few years of the 20th century before it became an issue.

This was around the time that I entered the I/T field, and unlike you, I do know what I'm talking about.

Yes a ton of resources were thrown at the problem. However the media also did their part in running a ton of dooms day pieces. I was newly married and watching some of those news pieces that suggested stock piling dry goods and having cash on hand for months. That was beyond our means so we were more of the hope and pray preperation group.

Mikey wrote:Haven't heard anything from Y2K for quite a while.

He posts at .net occasionally.

Left Seater wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:

Papa Willie wrote:About this time 20 years ago that we all started worrying a pretty good bit about that Y2K stuff? Hard to believe it’s been that long.

Talk about a grand example of media overhype...

It wasn't media overhype, you fat fucking retard. It was a very serious issue that had been forewarned (and ignored) in the late 1950's. That there were few serious problems when 1/1/2000 finally rolled around was not due to the situation having been overhyped, it was due to corporations and governments mobilizing large numbers of programmers to fix code in the last couple/few years of the 20th century before it became an issue.

This was around the time that I entered the I/T field, and unlike you, I do know what I'm talking about.

Yes a ton of resources were thrown at the problem. However the media also did their part in running a ton of dooms day pieces. I was newly married and watching some of those news pieces that suggested stock piling dry goods and having cash on hand for months. That was beyond our means so we were more of the hope and pray preperation group.

And a lot of the news back then was generated based on predictions from egg-spurts in I/T. But the fact that the US spent between 100 and 150 billion dollars preparing for Y2K had a lot to do with what turned out to be a relatively smooth transition.

Goober McTuber wrote:But the fact that the US spent between 100 and 150 billion dollars preparing for Y2K had a lot to do with what turned out to be a relatively smooth transition.

I heard somewhere that Prince got the biggest cut of that money.

Mikey wrote:Haven't heard anything from Y2K for quite a while.

poptart ran him.

Papa Willie wrote:we all started worrying a pretty good bit about that Y2K

Yeah, but we were all relieved when we learned that he wasn't drunk, just retarded.

Even after all that preparation there were some minor issues. Found a few Y2K issues in the software of the photofinishing outfit I was working for back then. As goobs said had warnings been heeded to start with a lot of money would have been saved.