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by sourcesmith 2286 days ago
There were a lot of Y2K related tasks in the course of many developers generally activity. Where I worked at the time, there were not developers solely dedicated to Y2K work. The Y2K issue pretty much caused an employment boom for software developers though.
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dhosek 2286 days ago
I was fixing Y2K bugs at a company founded in 1997. Unless you never touched date stuff, I can't imagine being oblivious to Y2K issues working in IT in 1999.
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slantyyz 2286 days ago
The startups I worked in around that time - we were using recent hardware with 4 digit years and unconcerned about Y2K issues.

So while we were -aware- of the Y2K issue, it didn't impact any of us in a concrete fashion. We would talk about people we knew on Y2K projects, which were mostly mission critical legacy systems.

So it's not inconceivable for devs in the 90s to have only cursory awareness of the -real- issues that the people who worked on Y2K projects were facing and solved.

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TedDoesntTalk 2286 days ago
It especially caused a boom for COBOL programmers, but not so much Java developers.
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DonHopkins 2285 days ago
It didn't turn out so well for some COBOL programmers...

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39

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