Winseer:
muckles:
Winseer:
Has everyone forgotten the 20th century?It was this period of time you see, that only came to an end a generation ago… That’s Pre-year 2000, when we got told another batch of bull scare stories regarding the Y2K bug that was going to blow up all our computers, and melt our brains…
Yes there were many scare stories about Y2k from an uninformed media looking for a sensational headline, but there was also a lot of work done by IT departments across the World to avoid the potential consequences of the Y2K issue, (it wasn’t a bug, just a legacy from the early days of programming)
As a programmer from the 80’s before I got a C+E licence - I can tell you that the so-called “early days of programming” issue was dealt with in FULL when computers went first from 8 bit to 16 bit by the end of the 80’s,
The Y2K issue didn’t worry the computer people of the 80’s and 90’s then -
So how come when I was working in IT in the late 90’s for a major financial services company, were they spending so much time and money checking the whole system was Y2K compliant, especially their legacy programs written in the 70’s?