I was going to say the same. Funny it gets written off today as a hoax when tons of people had to fix slews of bugs. It could’ve been bad, but fortunately the worst I heard about was some people getting stuck in some elevators.
Hey, the 486 I used for typing up school papers (and playing Civilization and Master of Magic) got wicked confused. I fixed the issue by telling it not to worry, it was still 1986.
Y2K would have sucked if people like me didn’t work to head it off. It was an all hands on deck effort across every industry.
Yeah, that doesn’t fit in there at all. Nothing bad happened because of a concerted effort over several years to update potentially affected systems.
2038 is going to suck though
I was going to say the same. Funny it gets written off today as a hoax when tons of people had to fix slews of bugs. It could’ve been bad, but fortunately the worst I heard about was some people getting stuck in some elevators.
Hey, the 486 I used for typing up school papers (and playing Civilization and Master of Magic) got wicked confused. I fixed the issue by telling it not to worry, it was still 1986.