• @exohuman@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      The only reason Y2K wasn’t worse was because a shit ton of people were hired to fix it before it happened. I remember folks literally coming to my high school in the late 90s and asking students to learn COBOL so we could help. There was a huge effort to stop it before it happened.

      • @theuberwalrus@lemmy.world
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        99 months ago

        This is such a frustrating concept that so many people don’t get. It was a huge issue, that’s why it got fixed before it could cause major damage.

        My dad thinks climate change is overblown because Y2K didn’t break the world.

      • HubertManne
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        19 months ago

        eyup. I was writing reports for a database for engineers to reference for remediation.

    • pewter
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      29 months ago

      Is that what some countries call Y2K?