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taperwolf:
samtheviking:
tilthat:
TIL the “Y2K bug”, wherein people feared computers glitching on the 1st of Jan 2000 and crushing the global economy but never happened, was a real crisis that was averted with $500B dollars in Global preparation spending
via reddit.com
I hate it when people say the Y2K bug was a “hoax”. No, it was a very real concern that was avoided by millions of programmers, some coming out of retirement, working around the clock to fix the problem before it happened. They succeeded, and instead of being thanked for their efforts, most people just assumed that since nothing bad happened, it wasn’t real.
That’s the trouble, isn’t it? Disaster preparedness and aversion only get noticed when they go horribly wrong. *waves vaguely around at the present* If you actually _did_ prevent the problem, it wasn’t real, and you wasted money and time on something that didn’t happen.
taperwolf:
samtheviking:
tilthat:
TIL the “Y2K bug”, wherein people feared computers glitching on the 1st of Jan 2000 and crushing the global economy but never happened, was a real crisis that was averted with $500B dollars in Global preparation spending
via reddit.com
I hate it when people say the Y2K bug was a “hoax”. No, it was a very real concern that was avoided by millions of programmers, some coming out of retirement, working around the clock to fix the problem before it happened. They succeeded, and instead of being thanked for their efforts, most people just assumed that since nothing bad happened, it wasn’t real.
That’s the trouble, isn’t it? Disaster preparedness and aversion only get noticed when they go horribly wrong. *waves vaguely around at the present* If you actually _did_ prevent the problem, it wasn’t real, and you wasted money and time on something that didn’t happen.