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Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster?

Posted by timothy on from the circumstances-flex dept.

Allnighterking writes "Y2K -- remember the fear it generated? Cartoons were written about it. The dried food industry saw a boom. Doomsayers abounded. But in the end, no planes fell, no one died and the electric grid stayed up for three more years. Was it all a hoax? Or was it the result of careful and complete planning and upgrading. American RadioWorks has a series of articles talking about the disaster that never happened called Y2K You can either Listen in or read the Transcripts of each of the 3 broadcasts and decide for yourself. The over 100 Billion pumped into the US economy alone may well have fueled the boom and predicated the bust. Could the success at Y2K prevention have made the coming problem in 2038 something people will ignore?"

6 of 625 comments (clear)

  1. Re:post the first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I got it first, bitch! You suck at Slashdot!

  2. Re:Linux : Hoax, or Suck? by Roland+Piquepaille · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And of course, your example uses a PCI 802.11b card with a proprietary Windows driver, that some brave guy managed to make work flawlessly under Linux with much hacking.

    Yay propaganda...

  3. Re:Not a hoax by Plural+of+Mongoose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn, mod parent up +1Insightful! (please)

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  4. Re:Perl Script by roy23 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You insensitive clod, perl is in /usr/bin on my gentoo server!

  5. Re:Oh no by SpooForBrains · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're welcome :)

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  6. Re:Not a hoax by PriceIke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Drunken moderation. It's a fun game!" - unknown Slashdot poster

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