#y2k25

Jason D. Moss 🇨🇦jasondmoss@mastodon.online
2025-01-02

...the fact #Y2K rose to little more than a footnote in the annals of the information age is largely due to the hard work and diligence of armies of IT professionals who spent years working out the best way to deploy a relatively simple fix to computers around the world.

@theregister #Y2K25 #ITHeroes
theregister.com/2025/01/02/twe

Daveography 🇨🇦 :magpie:Daveography@yeg.bike
2025-01-02

"Bad things would absolutely have happened absent diligent efforts. But it was never going to be as bad as the media made it sound. And because the problem was complicated and poorly understood, you also had loads of grifters and con-artists and highly paid consultants."

The Daily WTF: Y2K25
thedailywtf.com/articles/y2k25

#Y2K #Y2K25

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)GuyNamedBrian
2025-01-02

“As we launch ourselves into 2025, one of the key issues of the new year will be whether Americans care that the U.S. government does the hard, slow work of governing and, if it does, who benefits.”

heathercoxrichardson.substack.

2024-12-31

@fryday Vor einem Vierteljahrhundert wären alle bestens vorbereitet gewesen... (bei uns war vorsorglich die Badewanne gefüllt)

#y2k #y2k25

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