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The people who were working on Y2K did know what would happen in many cases. Their work avoided known huge messes in banking, infrastructure, aviation, and heal
by snowwrestler 3y ago
The people who were working on Y2K did know what would happen in many cases. Their work avoided known huge messes in banking, infrastructure, aviation, and healthcare, among others.
What they didn’t do, much, is write or blog about their work. A lot of fixes were to commercial or government systems running on commercial or government hardware. Publicly disclosing problems and fixes was not part of those cultures.
So it is very hard, today, for members of the public to go back and reconstruct the problems and solutions to “prove” that there were real issues. Which has led some people to believe, incorrectly, that there were not real issues.
- troupe 3y agoI was part of that remediation effort in the healthcare sector. And yes there were things that were fixed that prevented problems. However, given how many things were not fixed, it is amazing how few problems actually happened. (Someone got charged for 100 years of late library fees...) Is that because we found and patched all the systems that would have actually had a problem? Maybe. I'm guessing it is because many of the things that were fixed, wouldn't have actually caused any signifiant problem--at least not at the scale that was being predicted. But as you point out, if there were any systems that would have failed in a catastrophic way, those were evidently fixed.