Doom! WE'RE DOOOOOMED!

[den]

Y2³¹ bug

Comments

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

Heh!!! While there were a few genuine issues (which were competently solved), IMHO the whole thing was grossly overblown. The panic was happily fueled by the media, as well as by some companies looking to make a fast buck selling "snake oil" (ie: "remedies" that were bogus, for a problem that didn't really exist).

The simple, free software/OS patches solved 99.9% of the problems, and the custom business software providers handled their clients' problems without the "meltdowns" that were feared.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Any PC running Win95 or better wasn't going to fail, but the way the media carried on we were going to fall back to a pre-industrial society, the sun would explode, cats sleeping with dogs etc.

Most of the fixes had to be done on mainframes, and all of it was done long before the date turned. There was a problem, it was fixed, media goes berzerk. Film at 11.

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

"The World Ends At Sunset!"

Details at 11...

:-D

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Ergo why I referenced a strip drawn by someone who worked in computer proramming, of someone who worked in computer programming. :)

Have teh best

-=TK