Y2K turned out to be nothing because of the hard work of many people. I worked at a government agency. Our agency spent years planning for it and everything went smoothly.
Sigh. It wasn’t a nonevent BUT we took it seriously. It was a nonevent BECAUSE we took it seriously. Same dangerous attitude I’ve seen about ozone layer deterioration: if a major campaign of concerted action averted the problem, it must have been a fake problem. Not the correct lesson to draw!
Wow it’s the 25th anniversary of Y2K where nothing happened because a bunch of us did a metric fuck-ton of work in ‘99 testing and upgrading IT infrastructure systems. Wildest thing I worked on replacing was a CP/M system in a critical role – it booted from 8” floppies, and a VAX with a 9 Track tape
Sad! 
And then there was this book.
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