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 could potentially be a catastrophic event, I saw a phrase that shook me: "Hey, they told us the world was going to stop on January 1, 2000 and nothing at all happened. These people are alarmists." As one of millions of people involved in the Great Y2K computer code rewrite, I was shocked at the thought that there are people who don't understand the mind numbing amount of work that went into keeping the many systems dependent on computer programs from grinding to a halt between December 31, 1999 and January 1, 2000.

My goal here is to collect stories about working on the Y2K problem. Did you write code? Manage a coding group? Manage a business process that needed to be reworked? Do you have insight into other business, academic or government areas that needed to be reworked in the 1990's?

I'd be most grateful if you would share your stories, or your friend's stories, or even areas I should look into to in order to find stories. Let's have a virtual night at the pub, and 'remember when' over a beer. Or, whatever you're drinking in your home as you're looking over this blog.

If email is easier to use, please contact me at jeanieosc79@yahoo.com

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