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I think the bigger problem was not understanding 2000 was still a leap year. Is all your software ready for Y4K, the exception to the exception to the exception?

I made the most amount of money ever I did during this time. Well I suppose we made more money as group during the expansion of fiber but I mean the time during the turn to 2000 was so much more profitable we could dictate any price.

No way Y2K is 25 years ago. Sheesh

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I remember all too well!

Y2K scare.

"12/31/99" Wait, is that 1999 or 2099?

My parents and I attended a midnight showing of Fantasia 2000. Great new years.

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Lol $1200 to sit at home! Offered to refund! The Hospital cancelled day of the 7-1am DJ Dance party. Workers were so pissed off they all had to be on duty! Then no one but workers allowed inside? So they calked me at 3 pm. Nice! $1200 to sit home!

Somehow, after the devastation, we picked up the pieces and found a way forward.

Happy 25th. 😊

My team spoit into two elements. One monitoring the impending computer crash and the rest out dealing with massive wildfire being blown onto our community by 100 km per hour winds. A memorable night all around!

Jeez!

Yeah, I think we did 30 million lines of code, and I haven’t looked at date fields the same ever since that experience. 😄

Mrs. deWinter… loved the movie.

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😂😂😂😂I do

I deployed a bunch of the fixes on the Voicemail systems at SBC (now AT&T) for millions of users in the weeks preceding, then sat on a voice bridge (what we did before Zoom calls existed), while Tech Support and site managers activated the fixes and tested them prior to midnight. Fun Stuff.

Cause tonight we're gonna party like its 1999.... Y2K BABY!!!

That’s why we are still here.

I was on quadruple pay that night. 12-hour shift. Database testing Even the security guard was stood by watching 🤣 expecting everything to crash

Came here to make that exact same point. Yes yes yes. Concerted international action can work, actually. Kids, let's sort climate change out shall we?

Just like a Bermuda Triangle

And yes, before doing all this, we ran several tests that confirmed that, in fact, people would not get paid (starting in late 1999), report cards wouldn't be printed, accounting wouldn't get updates, etc. Everything really was going to fall over!

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Ya know. That’s a service to the country. You guys be recognized for this.

I was a systems engineer in a big ISP at the time, so all our stuff was Unix-based and largely immune. I really appreciated all the work you guys did, though; it was absolutely a monumental and heroic effort. We're not out of the woods, though. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_20...

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In early Y2K testing, one of the UK banks discovered that they started printing statements with pre-decimal pounds shillings and pence if the date was less then 15 Feb 71. A bug that had been in the code for over 25 years.

Daylight savings..... one of our suppliers has a system that observes DST and presents data by timezone. We have to pull everything in and obviously push all to UTC, but this one thing drives me nuts. Ludicrous fuckwittery.

Absolutely. Years of planning, reprogramming, and deployment of updates.

You’re exactly right about that!

Oh Hell Yes I Remember - it was Stupid Crazy to the Nth

It was sheer idiocy and an inexplicable panic. At that time, I worked for a large IT company. We simulated the transition as early as 1998 and then did not understand the concern. I still refuse to believe that we were the only ones.

Oh yes, I remember partying like it was 1999. And surviving Y2K. Now, I'm doing everything to survive the next 4 years.🤦‍♀️ God help us.🙏🏼

Did anyone leave their computer on for y2k, if so what happened?

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Google Play search for E-Play free music software

Now that takes me back. Tried so hard to explain to people why it wasnt an issue.

I remember, so many were fearing the end of the computer world.

Hah I was playing Dark Ages online when this flipped

Remember when this was all to worry about kinda miss it

People, especially those born after or who were small kids then, act about Y2K the same way MAGA did to COVID but refuse to admit the parallels coz being smug, condescending non-thinkers has been encouraged as part on the inherent discourse & identity of the Left by those who desire it's uselessness

I was offered triple my salary (in UD$) as a mainframe DBA and programmer/analyst in late 1997 to move from Montréal to Texas. I declined and have never regretted that decision.

Cool...posted right above the cup holder!

Yep, I remember

Never forget. Never surrender!

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Oh boy! I remember🤦‍♀️

We were at a party where on of the people was a plumber and cut off the water source 10 mins before 12. When a person informed the hostess that something was wrong with the water, she started to freak and then looked at the plumber and yelled at him. We all busted a gut! 🤣

Holy shit! It's not !!!

Oof. Am old

Yes, Indeed! I wrote about and advocated for this in my Uni student union weekly magazine back in th day.

Was a busy night Celebrated an engagement...And rang around the healthcare facilities for which I had responsibility to ensure the lights were on & computers working A dead phone line would have been an ominous sign but we already knew Tonga, Samoa & Line Is. were ok...& our party lights were on!

I was a sys admin then. I remember a lot of meetings with the owners trying to explain why we couldn’t guarantee everything would be fine, but that we were also reasonably sure they would still have a viable business on the 1/1.

Stocking up on groceries… pulling money out of the ATM…. Waiting for everything to just shut down right at 00:00… good times

What a pain in the ass that was checking our system on January 1st at like 8am.

Same to you I flew transatlantic on the cheapest flight ever 😂

I was an RN working in a hospital. The preparation for that one moment in time took months!!!

I had to stay up till midnight that night and then get up a dawn to cover the Rose Parade for my New Year’s story that year. It was one of those non-news news stories 😂

We must protect the computer from themselves at all costs!

I was just talking about this with my parents last night! I was only 8 at the time, so I only remembered the big NYE party, but they told me it was a really big thing people around the world were worried about.

You're welcome.

In retrospect, the most dire predictions would likely have been blessings had they come to pass.

I worked over the midnight hour that night. Just had one system that the user accounts default expired at midnight.

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The company I worked for at the time worked days and weeks and months to install and test an updated and customized computer system to insure Y2K was a nothing burger for us.

Ya, a 5.25 floppy might have triggered me. I hated those things.

I worked in an Apple/PC reseller. We made a fortune preparing our customers’ Winblows PCs whilst we were gloating to ourselves that our Mac users, who had stuck with Apple through the bad times, were sitting there hassle-free 🤣

OMG, I remember being in one of my tech newsgroups that night. We were all having a blast over it and wanted to be online. Man, I miss those tech newsgroups.

Merry new year x

Does days it doesn't feel so strange.

Don’t forget 2035…

Kind of remember. We had a three-day house party and things got a bit fuzzy.

Yup 😂 I remember ..........

I remember it well. I spent NYE at work awaiting the predicted doomsday. It was all for nothing, but the snacks, board games, and company were great fun.

Remember as former member work task force in meetings for one year.

Ah 31/12/99. Remember it well

I was afraid that the neighborhood would turn to bedlam lol

And somehow we are still here.

You’re welcome.

My dad worked in tech, so I knew how hard and how long people were working on this and had no concerns whatsoever. I was working at the door of a big New Year's eve party in LA. I will never forget how quiet LA was. I was shocked at the number of people that really believed something might happen.

Looooool

✊🏻Haha

Spent that new year next to a couple of ATM machines just in case. True story lol. Hey teenager years. You never know 🤣

I actually have 20 year olds ask me about this. Kind of funny.

My late husband worked for Texas Instruments and every one was on call that night!

Y2K I had a customer who was CEO of a major tech company. He had a 30 acre compound in Brentwood Los Angeles. He loaded shipping containers with fuel and supplies. Anchored his 105' Yacht close offshore. Had 4x4s with Zodiac boats ready to take his family away Good times

Remember it well. I was in a server room all night. Of course nothing happened. But they paid me to be there just in case.🤞

I remember it well. I got paid 2000 pounds to sit in an office with a bottle of gin.... Nothing happened.... Obviously.

Y2K okay stickers on all the computers in the labs at school is a core memory for me.

My late bride worked at Chicago ARTCC. She didn't work that night. One of her co-workers called saying there was a brief computer outage around 7:00p.m. No one thought anything about it. Happened all the time. I later pointed out that, per herself, all the computers were synched in ZULU/GMT.

That was the talk several years leading up to it!

Flashback

Happily, the 31st month of the year never came ...

Good times.

Don’t remind me. Got off a plane and drove two hours to get home, drop my family off and continue another 45 minutes to work to baby sit a shut down facility in case something happened. Spoiler alert: nothing happened.

My hubs & I worked for an airline. It WAS a big deal. We worked 3 yrs in prep. We were on call. It was a big sigh when we didn't get "the call" just after midnight!

Ahhhhh. Good times.

I swear to you it was so many people I saw a person fall down and it took 40 to 50 people down in a big circular pattern. Like dominos

We holed up in Floyd County VA that night waiting for the year 00 to come back and dint shit happen

I was programming at a bank in '81 & we were already concerned! As it came everyone was told to be careful. MJ cancelled a show. All went well though, but the DoD said they lost their "eye in the sky" for a while (I suspect they said that just to make everyone feel it was worth it to be careful).

I was able to be with friends but didn't drink until after midnight, in case I needed to race to work. What were we going to do running into offices in the middle of the night?