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The millennial council (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh God, Y2K. My dad was in the Air Force and his unit was responsible for a big base's networking. My dad had to go into work that night as they expected the entire base's network to just erupt. We were all so worried about it and then ... Nothing happened at all, he was home by 2am.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I don't really know what all the common folk were expecting. All that shit was being updated for several years to be ready for 2000. I think it was just a combination of the thrill of things possibly going haywire, along with still being a general ignorance among a large portion of people about computers and programming.