An insane amount of money and overtime went into changing software and data to make sure that a lot of bad things did not happen. It's not that the Y2K bug was a nothing burger, a lot of people worked very hard to make sure critical systems were changed.

Having spent 80 hour weeks in '99 ensuring this became a meme....

..i still wanna smite.

Millions of man hours preventing catastrophe only to be met with the perpetual refrain “What do we pay you for?”

Those people deserve to be as honored as those who worked in the space program, but all the recognition they got was the movie Office Space.

I worked on an ISP helpdesk in 1999 (including New Year, to my disgust), and we had dozens of people call in during the next few days because systems they relied on to run their businesses had failed.

The fact they were calling an ISP about their accounting software is probably an indicator of the type of thinking that caused their problem.

Y2K was a real threat and maaaaany people worked around the clock to update firmware and software to ensure everything would be fine. And it was fine. And then people said "iT wAs JuSt A cOnSpIrAcY". No, it was a crisis that was avoided by hard work from many people.

I have a similar one on my computer. But 2038.

Thid is the same bullshit as anti-vax i hope you know. When a bunch of people work their asses off to prevent a tragedy and when it is averted everyone acts like its a total waste of time or some kind of conspiracy.

I was a nerd in high school with no friends and all I wanted as midnight approached was for Y2K to not interrupt my Team Fortress Classic match.

It didn't. And I laid waste to my digital foes.

This reminds me, a local man built a bunker with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and food in preparation for Y2K apocalypse. When it didn't materialise, he eventually died and my dad bought some old steel things at estate auction. We cannot for the life of us figure out what these things were for.

Some sort of rack? Too short for hanging meat. Made of steel. About 5 of them. It's really been bugging us.

Don't knock it. Iron Man's armor gained sentience because of the Y2K bug kicking in at the same time he was hit by lightning. It spirited him away to an island to 'protect' him, and became obsessive about it, to the point where it created an artificial heart for him to replace his damaged one. It also killed Blacklash, while Tony was trapped inside, unable to take control. Beat him like a motherfucker. To death, I say. Serious business, that Y2K.

Best Buy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem#Documented_errors

Excellent prank by best buy, there's no month 31, silly goobers

This is fine. Booting the computers back up the next morning is shere we all went wrong!

I miss 1999

My guy over here with a 52 speed.

Load-speed flex.

Y2K is why PROLOG devs are paid so much.