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12:40am December 13, 2014

clatterbane:

My dad actually got a decent bit of work out of the Y2K thing, given his experience with COBOL. But, the hype really was ridiculous. He kept just about choking to death laughing at the alarmist crap people were coming up with, and he was one of the ones doing the work to keep systems running smoothly.

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    The world wasn’t going to come to an end, of course not. But there would have been cascading failures in a lot of...
  6. caitatonic said: kinda weird my dad did COBOL stuff too. I was only 9 when Y2K was a thing tho so I barely remember it. But I do remember reading my dad’s COBOL text books.