Did anyone actually think about Y2k??? (Score 1)

Has anyone actually stopped to think why Y2K was even a problem? It wasn't that computers were suddenly going to develop a mind of their own and blow things up and cause things to stop working. You can blame that mindless bull on the media.

Many people never even understood the real problem. The real issue is that computers would become "confused" at the turn of the century because programs would be accessing data that is newer than the current date (that is programs would probably have negative dates in their system somewhere) causing information to go haywire.

The truth is no one knew what was going to happen, and programmers and experts (and laypersons) did their best to not confuse their computers on the elusive 01-01-00. Some may say those persons succeeded in their mission, and now some say there was never a problem to begin with. The truth is, everyone who actually thought about this knew that there were potential problems. Ole Mr. Media decided that it would be fun to freak everyone out and *gasp* maybe even cause the end of the world from mass panic. Wouldn't that be swell!

It is obvious that we have prevented blackouts, which yes, were possible, and we even kept those stoplights working! So no, this was not just a big hype, but it wasn't a big miracle either. In fact let me tell you a little secret--a stoplight doesn't really care what year it is ...