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MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘

@TomWellborn
I was freelancing in I.T. in the years prior to #Y2K.

Every company was lousy w/a dozen or two 20-something tech bros. And the competition for top talent had companies offering all kinds of perks that would appeal to immature male computer geeks:

Remote control cars to play with on your break. Foosball tables. Vending machines stocked with ultra-high caffeine sodas (pre-Red Bull.)

#Musk's hacker goons reminds me an awful lot of those days. I'd NEVER trust them w/sensitive data.

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Shantell Powell

Twenty-five years ago today, I had one of the busiest work shifts of my life. I was a grocery store cashier, and everyone thought they’d be living off-grid come midnight. Panicking shoppers were buying all the canned goods, bottled water, and boxed foods and filling their carts. People were in a rage. The line of people waiting to get to the cash registers wrapped completely around the interior of the large store more than once. None of the cashiers were given any breaks. We were exhausted and shell shocked.

When my shift finally ended, I went and did my radio show: The Erotic Tablesaw. I had the 11-1 spot that night, and yes, I played 1999 by Prince as the countdown to midnight.

The world did not end.

Afterwards, I smoked cannabis for the first time.

youtu.be/rblt2EtFfC4

A yellow and black sticker with the message: "REMEMBER Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99," featuring the Best Buy logo.
#Y2K#NYE1999#NYE
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Wen

‘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.

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · ‘All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it’: the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years onTom Faber
#Y2K#IT#KnowNothing
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Part of what makes Y2K such a disappointment, is that a more thoughtful engagement with the actual Y2K problem could have easily led to a better movie, and a much better critique (to the extent that Mooney was interested in making any kind of critique). Many of the real concerns about the Y2K problem revolved around the ideas of power outages—and one can imagine a pretty decent horror movie in which a group of teenagers suddenly have to find their way home in the dark. Indeed, there’s a lot that can be done with the idea of “what if everything stopped working?” (for a great example of this I highly recommend Tim Maughan’s book Infinite Detail). In Y2K the teens ultimately triumph thanks largely to Laura’s excellent computer related skills, but one could imagine a much more frightening story unfolding in a situation where a group of characters realize that they don’t actually have any of the necessary skills to navigate the situation they find themselves in. A lot of the fear about the Y2K problem was hyperbole that was stirred up by irresponsible media coverage that preferred interviewing doomsday-preppers to speaking with IT experts, but the fear underlying much of this was based on an understandable concern that when things stop working everything starts falling apart pretty quickly. And such a scenario could still be played for a mix of horror and humor: a movie featuring Fred Durst as the leader of a group of post-apocalyptic rap rock fans hunting some nerds in the dark probably would have been funnier and scarier than anything Y2K has to offer."

#Y2K #ComputerHistory #Cinema #Movies librarianshipwreck.wordpress.c

LibrarianShipwreck · Mix CDs, instant messenger, and the end of the world – a review of Kyle Mooney’s Y2K (the movie)“Y2k is an opportunity to educate ourselves first hand about the nature of 21st century threats. Technology has provided the U.S. with many advantages, but it also creates new vulnerabilities…
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