Y2K was not a hoax lmao it was prevented by the concentrated efforts of the entire IT community
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It was kinda a hoax. Not the problem itself, it did exist, but everything in 1999 was "y2k compliant". Especially things that couldn't be affected by the issue (like toasters and what have you).
It was not a hoax, but it was hoax adjacent.
Given I wasn't alive when it went down, I appreciate your perspective
It says literally nothing about it being a hoax. It says it was a panic, and that's accurate
That may be true, but most of the other examples are hoaxes. It woupd be like if I said "famous crimes: murder, genocide, jaywalking". It's a false equivalence by expectation of similarity.
Shoving an egg back into a chicken is pretty fucked.
Interesting, though I feel like this would have been better mapped chronologically versus alphabetically. Just to get an idea of when these things actually happened. It’s not information I need handy that I’d ever have to look it up alphabetically. It’d be more interesting to see how panics might’ve changed over time.
Y2K would have sucked if people like me didn't work to head it off. It was an all hands on deck effort across every industry.
2038 is going to suck though
Yeah, that doesn't fit in there at all. Nothing bad happened because of a concerted effort over several years to update potentially affected systems.
I was going to say the same. Funny it gets written off today as a hoax when tons of people had to fix slews of bugs. It could've been bad, but fortunately the worst I heard about was some people getting stuck in some elevators.
Hey, the 486 I used for typing up school papers (and playing Civilization and Master of Magic) got wicked confused. I fixed the issue by telling it not to worry, it was still 1986.