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I much rather meant the fear of the unknown and people thinking that the world would end in pure chaos, not as much the technical background. And all of that b
by dailykoder 2y ago
I much rather meant the fear of the unknown and people thinking that the world would end in pure chaos, not as much the technical background. And all of that because a number of a birth year from one person was chosen.
- theoreticalmal 2y agoMust’ve been an important person
- iamflimflam1 2y agoThe unknown was just how many systems would be impacted. I don’t think there were many people (I’m sure there were some) who were scared simply because of the number. It’s very hard for developers nowadays to comprehend this kind of problem as date handling is now much more sophisticated (though still seems to cause a ridiculous number of bugs). A lot of systems that were developed in the 70s, 80s and even the 90s(!) just assumed that storing the year using 2 digits was more than sufficient. The same attitude as now was pervasive back then - don’t worry, this will be replaced in a couple of years time. It was the realisation that many of these systems were still in use as the year 2000 approached that trigger the effort and education needed for Y2K. The education was needed because many businesses did not even know they might have a problem. The fact that there were no massive disasters is down to the effort that was put in.
- philistine 2y agoI just feel lucky we won't have to deal with the year 10,000 problem.