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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 473884" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Y2K wasn't silly. The reason it didn't happen is because enough work was done to prevent it. If nothing had been done, there could have been problems. Would have been problems. Not necessarily doomsday stuff, but a lot of our computers at the time had not been set with four digits in the year, only two. It didn't need too much work on each computer to fix it, just tedious, repetitive work and someone actually doing it. Billing for services, for example, would have gone haywire. Can you imagine getting a bill with a due date of 1901, which then cuts off your power for non-payment AND backdates all the calculated interest? That is one example of what would have happened in some places if the programmers hadn't got busy and patched stuff. Once 2000 came round, the main worry was that there might have been some vital area that got missed, so people had their fingers crossed. But thankfully, everyone had done enough. Or almost everyone. </p><p></p><p>Y2K still happened, but on a much smaller scale. I still have the box that a very large Easter egg came in, that someone gave easy child. The use-by date stamped on the box was April 1901!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 473884, member: 1991"] Y2K wasn't silly. The reason it didn't happen is because enough work was done to prevent it. If nothing had been done, there could have been problems. Would have been problems. Not necessarily doomsday stuff, but a lot of our computers at the time had not been set with four digits in the year, only two. It didn't need too much work on each computer to fix it, just tedious, repetitive work and someone actually doing it. Billing for services, for example, would have gone haywire. Can you imagine getting a bill with a due date of 1901, which then cuts off your power for non-payment AND backdates all the calculated interest? That is one example of what would have happened in some places if the programmers hadn't got busy and patched stuff. Once 2000 came round, the main worry was that there might have been some vital area that got missed, so people had their fingers crossed. But thankfully, everyone had done enough. Or almost everyone. Y2K still happened, but on a much smaller scale. I still have the box that a very large Easter egg came in, that someone gave easy child. The use-by date stamped on the box was April 1901! Marg [/QUOTE]
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