The biggest part of that scare was the government saying that nothing bad would happen. Scared the crap out of me and made me a prepper, for life.
That’s odd
I work for a utility and the government made us spend millions going through all of our equipment to make sure that it did not have a Y2K bug
We had to file a report listing every piece of equipment its computer,the software and what was done to correct any flawed software all the way down to firmware
Most people are unaware that mankind will face this SAME Y2K problem at the end of the year 9999, when the year rolls over to 10,000. But instead of the date going from 2 digits to 4, it will go from 4 to 5. We have about 7,982 years to prepare, however!
I work IT (over 20 years) The big issue here is we knew about the 2 -4 digit date issue for years. 2000 was not a surprise we knew (by owning a calendar) it was coming. The 2 digit date was used to conserve space when storage was expensive by the 90’s this was no longer an issue.
Only ignorant or low budget people had any trouble implementing a fix.
It was a completely testable outcome. No need to wonder just bump clocks forward. Machines don’t tell time they count from where we tell them too.
The bigger surprise was the linux Unix 9/9/1999 issue. 5 “9” Is used as a stop code in programming. A lot of people missed that one
It like this crap we can’t block hackers or online thiefs. The second someone in an IP block causes a problem mask them from the routers The rest of the IP block will police them very quickly.
Someone where they shouldn’t be kill the block it will fix its self.....