alt Hacker News> Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened.
Exactly why the general public thinks Y2K was a "hoax" or "overblown".
> Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened.
Exactly why the general public thinks Y2K was a "hoax" or "overblown".
I had a tech coworker who thought Y2K wasn't really a thing. I started working in tech in the middle of '99 and was dealing with Y2K stuff right out the gate. He started in the industry in 2001, so missed it.