Y2K?
Just a conspiracy theory innit!

Like many others of the day, I was busy not partying when it was New Years Eve 1999.

An entire army of us, IT contractors from all over the world and our local counterparts, were sweating bullets as the seconds ticked by. All of us hoping, crossing fingers, turning blue, and willing to offer our souls to any kindly passing deity with a single prayer "Please please please ... don't fail!"

We had double/triple/quadruple checked everything. We had broken our brains with all the possible permutations of what might possibly go wrong. And no one was absolutely sure that nothing would go wrong.

The potential for UTTER DISASTER was HUGE! But thanks to the efforts of said IT army, it passed off rather well really.

So a few weeks later, I'm sitting on a bus when some stupid mouth breathing chav starts loudly declaring the whole thing was a massive conspiracy theory and a bloody huge waste of tax payers money.

I could've decked him. In fact Common Sense barely prevailed over the fact that I was only half his size. Eejit.
(Que?, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 7:52, 3 replies)

Yep
I know that one. I too worked day and night and have heard similar things:

"Well, I told you that was a waste of time. No planes fell out of the sky, no computers went nutty...etc...."

No mention of the bloody reason why nothing went wrong!
(dchurch bah, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 8:04, closed)

We need a campaign in the Sun...
...to get our efforts during those dark dark days at the closing of the last century recognised. I demand some sort of monument on The Mall at the very least.
( shitkicker, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 14:33, closed)

I wans't in IT at the time, unfortunately.
But I know Zeller's Congruance, for one, messed up after 1999. I was very impressed that nothing major happened.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 18:16, closed)