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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There was a period when that was true and companies were literally bringing retired programmers back to do it, but that was over 2 decades ago during the Y2K period when really old systems done in COBOL and running in mainframes had to have the dates problem fixed before the date roleover came in 2000.

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