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Not only was it real, some of the fixes were kludges put in place that would only last for 20 years. But that was fine, because surely we'd have done longer te
by AndrewDucker 7y ago
Not only was it real, some of the fixes were kludges put in place that would only last for 20 years. But that was fine, because surely we'd have done longer term fixes by then?
Except we didn't:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#On_1_January_2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#On_1_January...
- dhosek 7y agoWell when most of the bad Y2K code was written they knew it was bad, they just didn't think civilization would last until the year 2000. It was the Reagan years, after all.