Those of us working in IT in the years leading up to 2000, even if not directly involved in the work (and studiously avoiding getting sucked into the vortex of Y2K projects), were very well aware of the intense work being done by many 1000s of our colleagues.
It was a truly massive effort by a lot of conscientious and very hard working people facing an unmovable deadline.
January 1, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
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I was there, too, Joe.
They make it sound like a big joke now.
It wasn't. It was deadly serious.
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The plane that doesn't fall out of the sky thing...
If those 1000s and 1000s of hours of work hadn't been done and the work successfully completed, the subsequent disasters would have reverberated for many decades, and none of those reverberations would have been good.
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