‘The global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on
Curiously enough, to this day experts disagree over why nothing happened: did the world’s IT professionals unite to successfully avert an impending disaster? Or was it all a pointless panic and a colossal waste of money?
This comes up again. It was real, it was (mainly) fixed by hard work and it was the result of insufficient investment to fix problems, largely caused by historical cost.
The Guardian · ‘All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it’: the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on