posted in Asklemmy
What's something that 15 years ago looked like it would be a problem in the future, but didn't turn out to be?
Replying to @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
Y2K
Oh shit, what year did you just say it was?
Replying to @BlueEther@no.lastname.nz
People really gloss over that there was a lot of work done to make sure y2k wouldn’t be a disaster. It wasn’t exactly a hoax, it was averted
Replying to @Chl0r0f0rm_Angel@sh.itjust.works
Same with almost everything in this thread.
Replying to @Chl0r0f0rm_Angel@sh.itjust.works
The news stories blew the issue way out of proportion. There were claims that anything with a computer in it would stop working at midnight. Cars would crash, planes would fall out of the sky, etc. Y2K was really just a finance and IT problem. The fact is most electronic devices of the time, even ones with a clock, didn’t know what the year was and couldn’t be effected by a short-sighted engineering problem.
Replying to @cryowatt@lemmy.zip
I guess that’s true