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Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster?
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?"
Suck it down, bitches. Y2K pwn3d j00!
suckas. i mean, really, what a bunch of dirty sucks you all are!
A scam.
I was working for a company that jumped on the Y2K bandwagon in 98/99. The official company line was "there's no risk to our OS, we've tested it, but we'll keep selling the testing-and-patching tool right up to Dec 31, 1999, 23:59:59 and get all the money we can from worried customers. The "fix" sold for $60 and was nothing more than a small program to set the clock at 23:59:58, wait 5 seconds, and determine that there was no danger, and if it was run on another, competing OS that was vulnerable, install a dumb TSR to correct the problem.