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I was not working on fixing Y2K issues, but I did notice the impact it had on systems that hadn't been patched. It's the typical IT conundrum, when you do a goo
by ebrenes 7y ago
I was not working on fixing Y2K issues, but I did notice the impact it had on systems that hadn't been patched. It's the typical IT conundrum, when you do a good job no one notices and you don't get rewarded for doing a good job; the only recognition comes when things fail.
Some historians seem to think that it was a real crisis in which the US pioneered solutions that were used across the world:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/30/lessons-yk-years-later/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/30/lessons-yk...