• @towerful@programming.dev
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    81 year ago

    Best counter point is y2k.
    Huge publicity. Massive amounts of money spent.
    New year 1999/2000 was uneventful (except for parties).
    … Y2k was a hoax, waste of money… Wut?!

    It wasn’t. There’s is proof of such. It was removed/mitigated by a huge effort of developers.

    • MapleEngineerOP
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      61 year ago

      “We spent millions of dollars and a year preparing and NOTHING HAPPENED! All that time and money wasted!”