Tag: Y2K
Tech Time Warp: Ringing in the new year and waiting for Y2K chaos
Tech Time Warp: Ringing in the new year and waiting for Y2K chaos
Do you remember holding your breath on New Year’s Eve 1999, wondering if technological balls would start to drop after the ball dropped in Times Square? After governments and corporations spent an estimated $300 billion to $600 billion worldwide to...
Tech Time Warp: The Leap Year Bug, Y2K’s lesser known counterpart
Tech Time Warp: The Leap Year Bug, Y2K’s lesser known counterpart
As we like to chuckle about now, Y2K ended up being a bit of a yawn. But do you recall the year 2000’s other calendar-based tech issue, the Leap Year Bug? Ultimately, it didn’t result in any major catastrophes either,...
Tech Time Warp: The lesson to learn from Y2K, 20 years later
Tech Time Warp: The lesson to learn from Y2K, 20 years later
It’s cool 20 years later to snicker about the non-event Y2K turned out to be. However, the programmers who spent long hours ensuring it was a non-event get a bit defensive about that — and rightfully so. After all, their...
