[shever73]

The whole article was full of supercilious snark. A lot of it was aimed, rightly, at Andersen, but it does take away from the fact that Y2K was a real issue that affected millions of computers worldwide.

I patched hundreds of vulnerable systems, rewrote code for mission-critical software and still ended up with a call-out to halted manufacturing plant on January 1st, 2000.

If there hadn’t been a global, coordinated response, things would have been a lot worse. And let’s not forget that there were life-changing effects of the bug beyond the snarky “garage door opener” issue mentioned in the article. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/14/martinwainwright