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Eric Neustadter (e)
@thevowel.com

DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

NPR@npr.org

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

npr.orgY2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking outPeople feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
Mike Beasley
@mikebeas.com

That’s not what the article says at all. The article says the preparation “paid off” by averting the disaster. Maybe you should read it before commenting on it?

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