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The fact that it's not common knowledge and not taught in schools and universities is concerning.
by net01 1y ago
The fact that it's not common knowledge and not taught in schools and universities is concerning.
- Henchman21 1y agoIs it? I was starting my career during Y2K. It was widely regarded as a bust, and I’d anticipate people expecting the same damned thing?
- sroussey 1y agoIt was largely regarded as a success. Why do you say a bust?
- parpfish 1y agoI remember some people looking forward to the y2k chaos. There was a smug sense of “look at how badly those brainiac computer guys screwed up” I remember a rumor that “if enough people take their phone off the hook before midnight it’ll take down the phone network”
- phtrivier 1y agoI don't know about "largely", but I can point to a least one instance where the most week know comedy show at the time in France ("Les guignols") had a bit about how the Y2K bug was a "scam" orchestrated by "Big Tech" to make people buy new computers - given that nothing terrible happened on Y2K. The sketch was a riff about the kindergarten joke : - why do you [insert weird action] ? - to scare the girafes away - but there are no girafes here - of course, I've been [insert weird action here] And I was a software engineering student at the time, and I tried explaining they were missing the point, but I think it will be how we're approached this time. So, I think nothing will be done, or not enough, and bugs will happen in 12 years. But, thankfully, all our computers will have been replaced to allow running js.
- msla 1y ago"What am I paying my IT department for? My computers never have problems! It's a scam, I tells ya!"
- Henchman21 1y agoSorry, I meant from the perspective of people expecting chaos to happen. I agree it was wildly successful in that basically nothing happened!