After 22 years I see that people are “still” saying Y2K was a non-issue. In a way it was, but only because a hell of a lot of computer nerds busted their butts for years ahead of time to correct the shortsightedness of either IBM in their storage methodology and their own actions in not anticipations of the future.
Personally, none of the programs I wrote were at issue because I stated adding the century to the date retention as early as the beginning of the 1980’s. In talks at user’s groups in the late 1980’s many companies were starting to address this issue ahead of time by setting guidelines for any new development, software acquisition, and even program modifications.
Ironically the worse offenders were the financial institutions because they hadn’t changed their core software sine the 1960’s. But when the mid-1990’s rolled around they spent money up the waazuu to fix their issue and be certified by the banking and financial oversight agencies.
That is why Y2K was a big nothing.
Not because it wasn’t real. Instead, it was because it was real, and everyone busted their butts to keep it from happening.
