Amongst my friends who are non-tech people it is a common belief that Y2K was a big scam, and that it all just went away when the calendar turned. I have to point out over and over again that it all “went away” because organizations spent billions of dollars modernizing their software (which was motivated by, but not limited to, addressing Y2K, we'll never know what the total cost of that was).
Amongst my friends who are non-tech people it is a common belief that Y2K was a big scam, and that it all just went away when the calendar turned. I have to point out over and over again that it all “went away” because organizations spent billions of dollars modernizing their software (which was motivated by, but not limited to, addressing Y2K, we'll never know what the total cost of that was).
I expect the same, but worse, in 2038.