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People thought airplanes would fall out of the sky, banks would lose all customer records, the electrical grid would go offline, and nuclear plants would melt down.

If I remember correctly, a couple of video slot machines in Las Vegas needed to be rebooted.
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Mike Brock 2y ago

But … one could argue the panic, raised awareness, leading companies to invest in fixing the software, fended off a lot of serious problems. So I’m not sure it’s fair to say the Y2K bug wasn’t a problem.

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Byrger Tidesson 2y ago

I have friends working in rail transport that had to actually fix legacy systems for the Y2K bug in 1999 and spent the new year eve monitoring the situation. The threat was real, maybe a bit too dramatized by media

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graycat 2y ago

It’s indeed difficult to believe that throwing ~ $300 billion at the problem did no good at all. But was it well spent? I have doubts. Some countries like the US spent a lot to fix Y2K before 2000, while others like Russia spent little but muddled through.