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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

The article isn’t about how the effort was wasted, it’s literally about how it “paid off,” to quote directly from the article you didn’t bother to read.

Stever Robbins
@steverrobbins.com

I was responding to OP’s comment, saying that prevention is hard to see, due to its nature. People notice actions and consequences, not inaction or lack of consequences. e.g. insider trading = sell when you know a stock will tank. Not insider trading = hold when you know a stock will go up.

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