[net01]

The fact that it's not common knowledge and not taught in schools and universities is concerning.

[Henchman21]

Is it? I was starting my career during Y2K. It was widely regarded as a bust, and I’d anticipate people expecting the same damned thing?

[sroussey]

It was largely regarded as a success. Why do you say a bust?

[parpfish]

I remember some people looking forward to the y2k chaos. There was a smug sense of “look at how badly those brainiac computer guys screwed up”

I remember a rumor that “if enough people take their phone off the hook before midnight it’ll take down the phone network”

[Henchman21]

Sorry, I meant from the perspective of people expecting chaos to happen. I agree it was wildly successful in that basically nothing happened!

[msla]

"What am I paying my IT department for? My computers never have problems! It's a scam, I tells ya!"

[phtrivier]

I don't know about "largely", but I can point to a least one instance where the most week know comedy show at the time in France ("Les guignols") had a bit about how the Y2K bug was a "scam" orchestrated by "Big Tech" to make people buy new computers - given that nothing terrible happened on Y2K.

The sketch was a riff about the kindergarten joke :

- why do you [insert weird action] ?

- to scare the girafes away

- but there are no girafes here

- of course, I've been [insert weird action here]

And I was a software engineering student at the time, and I tried explaining they were missing the point, but I think it will be how we're approached this time.

So, I think nothing will be done, or not enough, and bugs will happen in 12 years.

But, thankfully, all our computers will have been replaced to allow running js.