▲ 138 ▼ The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later (hackaday.com) submitted 1 year ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] LostXOR@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago* (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago (2 children) Y2K wasn’t overhyped. It was just successfully planned for. This reeks of the paradox of IT. “Everything is broken, what do you even do” vs “nothing is broken, what do you even do?” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 5 points 1 year ago Yeah it only felt like it wasn’t a big deal because it became a big deal early enough for there to be plans made. And because good people doing hard work to prevent a problem wasn’t newsworthy after the fact. permalink fedilink source parent [–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago That's the thing though: It was well-prepared and due to that there was no big issue. 2038 is the same: very well prepared and thus it will not be a big issue. Of course, if ignored, both would be very problematic, but that's not the point. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago I was at Pepsi for Y2K. In 98, we started with MSMail, W95, and Netware2. We had to also replace all 40k desktops. We worked like dogs for those 2 years and only barely had everything ready in time. Without that work, we would not have been able to continue any business operations. Nothing about it was overhyped. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago (2 children) Y2K wasn’t overhyped. It was just successfully planned for. This reeks of the paradox of IT. “Everything is broken, what do you even do” vs “nothing is broken, what do you even do?” permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 5 points 1 year ago Yeah it only felt like it wasn’t a big deal because it became a big deal early enough for there to be plans made. And because good people doing hard work to prevent a problem wasn’t newsworthy after the fact. permalink fedilink source parent [–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago That's the thing though: It was well-prepared and due to that there was no big issue. 2038 is the same: very well prepared and thus it will not be a big issue. Of course, if ignored, both would be very problematic, but that's not the point. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 5 points 1 year ago Yeah it only felt like it wasn’t a big deal because it became a big deal early enough for there to be plans made. And because good people doing hard work to prevent a problem wasn’t newsworthy after the fact. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago That's the thing though: It was well-prepared and due to that there was no big issue. 2038 is the same: very well prepared and thus it will not be a big issue. Of course, if ignored, both would be very problematic, but that's not the point. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago I was at Pepsi for Y2K. In 98, we started with MSMail, W95, and Netware2. We had to also replace all 40k desktops. We worked like dogs for those 2 years and only barely had everything ready in time. Without that work, we would not have been able to continue any business operations. Nothing about it was overhyped. permalink fedilink source parent