Amen! Anyone working in IT during the years leading up to Y2K was well aware of the seriousness of the situation - especially in financial and insurance sectors which are heavily date based.
At the same time, fear mongers got involved. Stories of planes potentially falling out of the sky and the need to build and stock bunkers filled the airwaves. It was predicted to be TEOTWAWKI.
Y2K was real. Many programmers fixed many programs to make sure it ended up being a non-event. It wasn't a hoax.
Amen! Anyone working in IT during the years leading up to Y2K was well aware of the seriousness of the situation - especially in financial and insurance sectors which are heavily date based.
At the same time, fear mongers got involved. Stories of planes potentially falling out of the sky and the need to build and stock bunkers filled the airwaves. It was predicted to be TEOTWAWKI.