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By what definition of 'hype'? It was absolutely a significant problem that needed to be 'hyped' in order to get people involved and businesses to spend money. I

By what definition of 'hype'? It was absolutely a significant problem that needed to be 'hyped' in order to get people involved and businesses to spend money. I was involved in the periphery of Y2K, and saw significant budgets being released as a result of the hype. The OPs point is that because those budgets were spent (on the right things, hopefully), the failures did not occur, which means that some hype was necessary.

IshKebab 2y ago
Maybe you don't remember but the news at the time was talking about it as if it was going to be a nuclear apocalypse or something. It's annoyingly hard to search for old newspapers & TV news (does anyone know of a good free site for that?). The first thing I found was this Y2K survival kit: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1824776914/vintage-y2k-survival-kit-never-opened-if https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1824776914/vintage-y2k-survi... > Futurists predict that riots will sweep through cities all around the world after Y2K knocks out electricity and destroys banking and commerce systems. That's the sort of nonsense that was "promised", and to a large extent, exploited by Y2K consultants. So when people say "it wasn't a problem", they aren't saying "you didn't have to do some IT work to make sure your phone system didn't go down" or whatever. They mean there were no planes falling out of the sky, trains crashing, riots & looting, etc.
pdejager 2y ago
The year2000(dot)com was the clearing house for much of the non-hypearticles from IT folks. The way back machine has it archived. I’d suggest looking at the copies of the site towards the end of 1999. A good example of such an article was ‘a crock of clocks’ If you wanted to hear my take on y2k 20 years later? Check the podcast: y2k an autobiography Cheers

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By what definition of 'hype'? It was absolutely a significant problem that needed to be 'hyped' in order to get people involved and businesses to spend money. I

by Delphiza 2y ago

IshKebab 2y ago
Maybe you don't remember but the news at the time was talking about it as if it was going to be a nuclear apocalypse or something. It's annoyingly hard to search for old newspapers & TV news (does anyone know of a good free site for that?). The first thing I found was this Y2K survival kit: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1824776914/vintage-y2k-survival-kit-never-opened-if https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1824776914/vintage-y2k-survi... > Futurists predict that riots will sweep through cities all around the world after Y2K knocks out electricity and destroys banking and commerce systems. That's the sort of nonsense that was "promised", and to a large extent, exploited by Y2K consultants. So when people say "it wasn't a problem", they aren't saying "you didn't have to do some IT work to make sure your phone system didn't go down" or whatever. They mean there were no planes falling out of the sky, trains crashing, riots & looting, etc.
pdejager 2y ago
The year2000(dot)com was the clearing house for much of the non-hypearticles from IT folks. The way back machine has it archived. I’d suggest looking at the copies of the site towards the end of 1999. A good example of such an article was ‘a crock of clocks’ If you wanted to hear my take on y2k 20 years later? Check the podcast: y2k an autobiography Cheers