• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    How many Americans thought Y2K was going to crash the entire world?

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      1 year ago

      The only reason Y2K wasn’t worse was because a shit ton of people were hired to fix it before it happened. I remember folks literally coming to my high school in the late 90s and asking students to learn COBOL so we could help. There was a huge effort to stop it before it happened.

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        1 year ago

        No, that’s what my stupid brain vomited out lol. Thank you, I corrected it.