Pre-Millennium Tension: The Dali Clock Y2K Easter Egg
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It's been over 12 years since I pulled this prank, so I guess it won't really be a spoiler to talk about it now... You kids may have heard about that whole "Y2K" thing, where all the date-manipulating code in the world was going to go sideways once '99 turned into '00. Planes were going to fall from the sky, ATMs were going to jackpot cash into the street, nuclear power plants were going to ...
  • ThotDragon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    12 days ago

    I remember not really getting the worry and thought it was all over blown and then I was right. Admittedly out of ignorance but I did feel superior.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      the fact that nothing happened doesn’t mean it was overblown. the fact that nothing happened means all the engineering effort and sleepless nights that went into the problem were well-spent

      prevention that succeeds so completely to prevent a disaster that you don’t even notice is just a job very well done: not evidence that the disaster wasn’t real or very dangerous