re: #3 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I remember all the hype about Y2K. Jan. 1 came and went, and absolutely nothing catastrophic happened. In fact, it was a day much like any other.

Y2K was the IT world’s version of a Christian End of Times prediction, and just as wrong.

partly because there was a lot of work that went into correcting the BIOS and programs that would be affected before the date rollover, not necessarily because there was nothing of concern. The hype was overblown, but quite a few of the concerns, especially for people who relied on financial information, were real.

People tend to forget that nothing happened not because there was nothing there to happen but because steps were taken in those areas where we knew something was going to happen, and no, that doesn’t include planes falling out of the sky, or cars not starting or dying while driving. Cars have fallback systems that take the computer out of the loop when it gets bad info is just one example.

The conspiracies were nuts, but don’t go fully to the other side and claim Y2K was a big nothing from the start. Hard work and late nights made it a big nothing.