What happened to the Y2K scaremongers?

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Ed Yourdon seems to have buried all reference to his past there (but to his credit he did admit he was wrong about Y2K soon after it was apparent nothing bad was going to happen).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

This is indie and corny, but I was always kind of astonished by that Apples in Stereo song (Y2K) and just how thoroughly assured Bob Stereo was that everything was gonna be just fine.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:20 (twenty years ago) link

They faded back into the woodword with the cockroaches.

― 57 7th (calstars), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

Now they're all worried about the 2038 bug...

http://www.2038bug.com/

It's in the hardware!!

― Dale the Logged Out, Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

oh i'll be dead by then anyway

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 6 March 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

The precise date of this occurrence is Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038. At this time, a machine prone to this bug will show the time Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901, hence it is possible that the media will call this The Friday 13th Bug.

The terror.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

I bet that a lot of the Y2K survivalists-types are still in their shelters thinking that outside it's like The Omega Man.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 7 March 2004 05:10 (twenty years ago) link

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