Jeanine W
The Extraordinary Actions of Corporations
In the 1990's for profit businesses spent a shocking amount of money checking and rewriting the computer code that controlled their...
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THE DAY WE KEPT THE WORLD TURNING
What went into making Y2KÂ a "non-event"
This is a place to collect the stories of the people who worked on the Y2KÂ issues. The business world pulled out all the stops to keep human operations from stopping, and I'd like to record the stories of the people who did the actual work.Â
If you were part of the Y2K effort, if you wrote, designed or QA'd the code; if you managed a team, or worked as an independent contractor, whatever your role, if you were 'in the trenches' during the rush to rewrite faulty code before 1/1/2000;  I'd love to hear your story.
I'm using the blog on this site as a series of prompts. My intention is to help trigger memories, in the hopes you will share your stories in the comments. Thank you in advance for participating.
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What Exactly Did Federal Agencies Do To Stay Open
Federal agencies are notorious for being the last to update and upgrade. But in order to keep operations continuing into the new...
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How Did Academia Fit Into the Y2K Problem?
The internet rose from the work of the military, several universities and Bolt, Beraneck and Newman. Does your Y2K story involve any...
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Let's Talk About Y2K
When US media started reporting on a new contagious disease, and world health leaders started floating different ways to handle what...
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How It All Began
At some point in the 1990's business leaders were dragged into accepting that their systems might have been built on computer code with...
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