Out of nostalgia i rewatched the 1999 Times Square ball drop. About five minutes after the clock struck midnight they cut to Sam Donaldson in the government’s Y2K Response Center.
He was amazed to say that nothing was happening. Planes still flew, power plants still worked, bank accounts were fine. But the fact that there was a federal response center showed they took it very seriously.
“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”
I was there as well, although at the time working with small systems, but globally it was a model of proactive efforts. Nothing major happened because, not despite efforts.
And the only real recognition for all that amazing work was the movie Office Space.
The hysterics were always overblown, but it would definitely have been much worse had there not been so much work done.
It wasn’t overblown- lots of transportation and infrastructure systems needed to be updated
If it wasn’t done in advance that would have been chaos for weeks
It’s not easy to contradict yourself in a single sentence, but you nearly managed it :)
Not sure overblown is the right word.
Like did you see how people reacted having to wear a mask for Covid. Imagine they couldn’t use their banks or pay for things people are wild and don’t would be rioting.
