I was considered “brave” and “crazy” for offering to work that shift. People were losing their minds. It was the first time I realized how gullible the general public was. I was the calm in the storm. I reminded them that air was not controlled by a computer and we would survive. It would be like “camping nursing.” Midnight -NOTHING- and people felt stupid. I’m ready for that feeling again. It was priceless.
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The hysteria was crazy. I got into some ridiculous arguments in 1999. Things I remember saying:
The computer in your car doesn't care about dates - it's too busy figuring out air fuel ratios
The computers running the city water system only need to know the day of the week - to start ramping up pumps during the work week in anticipation of demand. If they print a report, it might have some bad dates on it.
You are right - people have already forgotten how they were taken in by the MSM.
The stupidity was astonishing.
Haven't thought about it in a long time. But in retrospect, I'm beginning to think it was an excuse to install DS code into the banking industry so they could monitor and steal from our investments.
9/10/01
Rumsfeld and his missing trillions.
You might be on to something....
Good point.
Metal Gear Solid 2 made this a plot point.
Good God, what did Hideo Kojima know?
Edit: Just so I'm clear, this is not sarcasm or joking.
Interesting. I've never heard Metal Gear Solid 2. Had to look it up.
FWIW, one time on a business trip I ran into a high flying exec (she told me so herself) working in the CC industry in the late '90s "fixing" the problem. She insisted it was a real problem, but I was skeptical (or curious), and asked a bunch of questions (from an inquiring minds want to know perspective). She knew what she was talking about. But there was something - I just wasn't 100% convinced it was as bad as she said. I suspected that the banking industry problem was only a fraction of what was advertised - a lot of people, and the computer industry, was making "bank" on the problem, Clinton was in the WH, and I was convinced the whole thing was a major scam.
I agree, the Y2K stupidity was astonishing, but even so it doesn't come close to the abject madness of Covidiocy.
My mom, who was fairly old at that time, was worried about what was going to happen. I told her nothing would happen. Then my husband, the engineer told her the same, and she was good with it. From what I recall some IT people were making an entire career out of it at the time.
agree completely about the IT ripoff! I owned a small business at the time, so could have been disastrous, but my IT guy just said, go in and change the date ahead to January 5th or something, then shut off all your computers after changing all...then have a Happy New Year, when you get back to your office after the holidays, reset the actual day...no problems...lotta IT people grifted big-time, then retired...
Definitely a scam - just recall who was in the WH at the time....
Absolutely...that was the first time I experienced fear porn! It was full blown panic at our office. My husband and worked for a heavily regulated industry and the company was freaking out.
My husband was a Manager of Telecom which involves microwave dishes, Scada etc and worked closely with the IT Manager. Corporate was send an inspection team and we were located in the state headquarters. The IT Manager had bunch of stickers printed that said "Y2K Compliant" and stuck them on everything in the Server Room! Sheer genius. The pea brains from corporate walked through the Server Room with Clipboards checking off their lists.
Of course this was a month prior to Y2K and we still had to keep watch all night to observe that nothing happened.
THIS!!
Planes totally fell out the sky right? Oh wait. That was 9/11.
Ignorance though
I hadn't thought about this in a while. I must have been half awake at the time because I knew it was bullshit without any proof of it being bullshit. I knew a husband and wife who spoke to groups about how to suck nutrients out of a grain of wheat. No joke (as Biden would say). My street gathered together and shot fireworks at midnight along with some local cops who let us do it even though it's illegal here.
It's funny - by the time of the Y2K event, I had worked with computer systems and controllers in a number of different industries, yet I was often told I had no clue what I was talking about.
I won't say much more - if I mentioned some of the systems I was involved with and worked on, I could easily be ID'd.