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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Mick, Y2K was not an overhyped scare - a lot of work went into making sure the scare did not become reality (for instance, I was in at work at 5am Jan 1st, 2000, and most of my team had been in since 11pm the previous night, and that was after about two years work of a team of 80 staff, not counting all the MS, Novell, Oracle, etc updates, and all the Telecomms/Server/etc firmware updates that were supplied).
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Point taken but in spite of all the background work that obviously succeeded in nullifying the Y2K threat Joe Public was kept on the edge of his seat til midnight waiting for the World to end.
Well those that were still sober and gullible enough to give a damn.
