Am I Alone After the World Collapsed?!?

petitclv writes "I just noticed that the last slashdot article was posted at 5pm, 'the day before the Y2K bug destroyed the whole world in flames.' So I wanted to know if I was the latest /. reader to be able to read it. Surely I'm not (partly because most of the people are celebrating as I'm writing this), but I just wanted to make a check. Do you think that the Y2K bug already has made a few troubles, but the media just don't want to put an end to your parties?" Well, petitclv, I crawled out of *my* bunker just now and the world still seemed to be going. (More below.)

My trusty Linux box seems to be working. No nuclear-looking glow from Washington DC (20 miles South of me). Guess all that's left to do is drink up the the stock of bourbon whiskey I accumulated "just in case."

No word from Holland, Michigan yet, but I suppose if the Midwest had been nuked or otherwise returned to the stone age, somebody would have submitted it by now, so I guess CmdrTaco, Hemos, CowboyNeal and the other Geek Compound denizens are okay (aside from possible massive hangovers, but you didn't hear that from me, oh no no no...)

So here we are in Y2K, preparing to face a crisis The Mainstream Media hasn't hardly mentioned: The Wetware Rollover Bug!

Do you have any idea how many people are going to write the wrong date on checks and other documents for (at least) the next month or two?

A frightening thought!

But Happy New Year anyway. ;-)

- Robin "roblimo" Miller
(on behalf of sleeping friends and co-workers everywhere.)

Comments

Congratulations...

[MartyJG]

to the rest of the IT industry - we pulled it off! The biggest scam of the last millenium!

We knew all along there was nothing to worry about. Most programmers have thought they were working in 2001 for the past twenty years anyway.

We worried the banks, we scared Wall Street witless, we even joined forces with Micro$oft to spread the word of doom.

We told the suits-that-hold-the-purse-strings that all our computers needed replacing immediately, when we weren't due for a real upgrade for another 18 months.

We convinced everyone that IT staff would need to be paid extra for millenium cover, but knew all along we wouldn't get a single serious call.

We got all the braindead Windows@Home users to rush out to their nearest PC stores to replace perfectly good 166mmx's, and to stock up with a years supply of tinned beans on their way home - simultaneously bringing down the prices of PC's and geek-food ATST!

In short, we win!