Any memories you have of Y2K?

[Toomstone.Part.Duex]

Im a biomedical engineering technician.  (Fix/maintain medical equipment).   The hospital where I worked at the time was very nervous about Y2K and made my whole department work.  When nothing happened we were still told to stay.   We watched tv and finally got to go home at 5am.      There was a lot do to before Y2K with software updates, patch installs etc..    But nothing happened after midnight. 

[DD4Bills]

What I remember most was all of the old COBOL programmers who made an f'ing mint in the months leading up to this non-event.

[Orlando Buffalo]

Y2K did have potential to cause major issues if people did not know it was coming. But we had at least 8 years to easily deal with it and any system that was important had been updated in the 8 years prior to the event. 

[Ted Striker]

On 12/27/2023 at 5:53 AM, sherpa said:

I was in the cockpit of a 767 over the Atlantic on the way to somewhere in Europe.

 

The cockpit! What is it?

[Just Jack]

41 minutes ago, Ted Striker said:

 

The cockpit! What is it?

It’s a little room in the front of the plane where the pilot sits. That’s not important right now.  

[sherpa]

48 minutes ago, Ted Striker said:

 

The cockpit! What is it?

 

It's a big building with sick people in it.

But that's not important now.

 

Oh wait.

[gomper]

Watching the incredible world wide coverage of countries ringing in the new century across the globe on PBS. It may have been the single greatest TV program I've ever seen.

[BillsFanNC]

On 12/26/2023 at 5:24 PM, PromoTheRobot said:

I was at Marine Midland Center (now Key Bank Center) watching Barenaked Ladies perform. They even had a countdown to zero hour. As you already know nothing happened.

 

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/barenaked-ladies/1999/marine-midland-arena-buffalo-ny-43dc2bdf.html

 

Was there as well.

 

Was it that show when Flutie sat in on drums for a song or two?

[PromoTheRobot]

2 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

Was there as well.

 

Was it that show when Flutie sat in on drums for a song or two?

Yes he did. I forgot that.

[Simon]

3 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Yes he did. I forgot that.

 

Understandable.

He was probably hard to see behind the bass drum.