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lol, I remember staying up crazy late to watch the new years roll into action in those far eastern Pacific islands. I think I was watching it all on ABCs World
by jxramos 6y ago
lol, I remember staying up crazy late to watch the new years roll into action in those far eastern Pacific islands. I think I was watching it all on ABCs World News Now. I forget the order, but stuff rolled in with some primitive island that was like the first to get the dawn, then in rolled over to Samoa and Guam, and things were looking great, no issues. But I figured maybe they didn't have too much reliance on computer equipment and networks etc, I'll wait for the big one with Japan and see how they do. Then when they hit Japan and reported from Tokyo and all was fine, I was like "man this was bunk, I'm going to bed". It was so underwhelming and I remember worrying somewhat about the end of the world lights out scenarios. Dang fake news man come to think of it.
- dingaling 6y ago> Dang fake news man come to think of it. That's an odd and rather insulting term for a problem that cost about $300 billion, globally, to address and prevent. I spent two years working on Y2K remediation and that was just within one department of one Fortune 100 company. We were still mopping-up a few missed patches of code throughout 2000 as they generated bugs.
- jxramos 6y agoFake news is probably harsh, but it did seem exaggerated. So I'm curious were the patches mostly precautionary or did people actually take said systems and run them on different clocks to see what actually happens to them when the time rolls over. I was much younger back then so my take on it all was pretty simplistic, but did people demonstrate actual program crashes and what not in some reproducible manner?