Many believed that nothing happened on Y2K
Ray Valladares • December 31, 2019
There were actually hundreds of Y2K-related incidents.
The tabloids published fake news and stirred the public into a frenzy. "Planes falling from the sky, the electrical grid failing and food supplies will be depleted", they said.
Despite all that, we had a job to do, and we were expected to do it well.
Y2K, one of the longest projects I worked on up to that point in my career. We knew what needed to be done, it wasn’t about the complexity it was the long hours and tedious work with precise focus to complete the task of reviewing, testing, and implementing new code into applications and the supporting infrastructure.
Recently, publishers have tried to recall the events of 20 years ago, this article captures what happened the way I remember.
"A legion of programmers and IT professionals squashed the millennium bug by checking and rewriting millions, if not billions, of lines of code. Best practices and solutions were liberally shared between the government and businesses, and carefully constructed contingency plans were put in place just in case the bug was still lurking in some systems.
And while many believed that “nothing happened,” there were actually hundreds of Y2K-related incidents. These included problems at more than a dozen nuclear power plants, delays in millions of dollars of Medicare payments, ATM issues worldwide and problems with the Defense Department’s satellite-based intelligence system. That problems were fixed quickly is largely attributable to the small army of programmers who spent the first hours of the year 2000 monitoring sensitive systems.
People rose to the challenge in 2000. That’s not something to laugh at, that’s something to celebrate."
Follow the link below to learn more about the days leading up to and after Y2K.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/30/lessons-yk-years-later/
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