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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-29 at 14:00

The Y2K panic of the 1990s reads as a punchline today, but for those of us who lived through it, it was serious enough. In retrospect it's easy to forget that we just did not know. The world dodged the bullet because companies and governments spent $100 billion remediating — the largest tech infrastructure project ever at that time. The sudden cessation of that spending contributed to the tech bust early in this century.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/12/28/npr-y2k-year-2000-preparations

https://tbtf.com//archive/1998-04-20.html#Ty2k

[#]Y2K

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Written by Virginicus on 2024-12-29 at 16:05

@kdawson The current attitude towards Y2K tells us something sad. Our leaders don’t get credit for seeing a problem and fixing it before anybody gets hurt. They are rewarded for letting disasters happen and then posturing resolutely amid the wreckage.

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Written by Keith Dawson on 2024-12-30 at 22:05

@Virginicus Right, that attitude discounts the fix. The vaccine had all but eliminated measles so we don't need to vaccinate any more.

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