Y2K

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

A decade ago, the Western world were obsessed with this three-letter abbreviation. Too much fear-mongering, where a whole consult-based industry arose, to take advantage of many typical Westerners buying that fear and storing in storage Eebbe knows what, believing the world as we know it will end when the year 2000 hits.

 

Maan, remembering all those brouhaha and much ado about nothings of these days. How gullible humans can be.

[Jacaylbaro]

How about what some say in 2012 ??

[Baluug]

A lot of the common people weren't as computer literate as they are nowadays. Gotta remember that the internet was only in the first few years of its explosion and computers were relatively expensive and a large amount of people didn't know any better, so they trusted the ones who said there may be a big problem with Y2K. Besides MMA, you can't say you weren't at least a little concerned about Y2K

[Geel_jire]

....... it was a legitimate problem but so over-hyped that it has lost all meaning...... now it just sounds like a scam.

 

stores started selling Y2K-Compliant products for things that had nothing to do with Y2K like Batteries,pens etc.

 

Many financial institution Banks,Insurance companies etc. rely on very old Mainframe systems that were programmed in the early 70's ... they didnt think ahead to account for the post 00 date or even leap year ........many such systems are still in production environments today

 

at a company I worked....... they still have to manually program in for the leap year..... it is like a mini-Y2K. The night of the leap year the whole IT department has to stay up..... to watch out for any affect the bug could have on backups, billing records and system logs...it would be too expensive to fix or over-haul.