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The lessons of Y2K


Y2K: An American Crisis - Process: A Blog for American History

Y2K proved to be a training ground for how Americans would face threats from terrorism, economic crisis, and climate change in the 2000s. The ...

How Y2K Offers a Lesson for Fighting Climate Change

“Y2K shows that the way problems are portrayed is crucial to how solutions are approached,” the researchers wrote. “Small, discrete problems are ...

Y2K bug | Definition, Hysteria, & Facts - Britannica

Many feared that when the clocks struck midnight on January 1, 2000, many affected computers would be using an incorrect date and thus fail to ...

Lessons learned from Y2K? - Bushcraft USA Forums

Even though Y2K turned out to basically be a nothing-burger (I'm sure due in part to work behind the scenes by IT folks), it put the thought out ...

The year a computer bug threatened to bring down modern civilization

'The Y2K Story' revisits the problem, the panic, and how the solution to Y2K offers hope for addressing modern problems on a large scale. Unlock ...

Transcript: From Y2K to 2038, Lessons Learned from First Computer ...

PAUL SAFFO: We simply did not have enough programmers in the United States who could do this. One of the surprises of the Y2K problem was it ...

The Lesson of Y2K the 'Millennium Bug' | United Church of God

Y2K is an abbreviation for the "millennium bug." It literally means "Year 2000." In brief, the Y2K computer problem is simply that, in the '60s and '70s, and ...

If you think the millennium bug was a hoax, here comes a history ...

Y2K was the great glitch in computer systems that looked capable of destroying civilisation at the stroke of midnight on the millennium.

Y2K Lessons in Crisis Management for the Coronavirus Era

we can also learn from a crisis that was successfully managed — the Y2K threat to computer operations 20 years ago. For those too young to ...

The lessons of the Y2K panic, a worldwide digital apocalypse that ...

January 1st, 2000 was supposed to see the modern world collapse like one long string of broken code. This was supposedly the Frankenstein story ...

The lessons of Y2K linger a year later - Deseret News

A year after the turn-of-the-millennium computer scare, it's just a fading memory for most people. But leading figures in the Y2K consciousness- ...

What Lessons Did We Learn from Y2K? What Forgotten? - Ecstadelic

Some technology experts warned that computers might stop working on January 1, 2000. It was called the Y2K bug, the Millennium bug or the Year 2000 Problem.

Was Y2K a Waste?

This would seem an easy problem to fix: Just patch the software! But that meant tackling the real problem that Y2K posed for all organizations— ...

Planning for the Worst, Bringing Out the Best? Lessons from Y2K

Planning for the Worst, Bringing Out the Best? Lessons from Y2K: 10.4018/978-1-59904-774-4.ch005: Organization theorist Lee Clarke (2005) argues when policy ...

The Lessons of Y2K - Oral Health Group

Well folks, Y2K has come and gone. The dire predictions of mass computers crashing, aircraft falling, missiles detonating, riots, ...

Using the lessons of Y2K to improve information systems architecture

The Y2k Personal Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Get from This Side of the Crisis to the Other

A Lesson from Y2K's Unsung Heroes - Directive Blogs

Directive can be your IT hero by working behind the scenes with our managed IT services to remotely take care of issues that might otherwise ...

From Y2K to 2038, Lessons Learned from First Computer Crisis

The Y2K bug threatened to wipe out computers and disrupt modern society at the end of the 20th century. We all remember the doomsday hype, ...

Y2K Revisited: Reliving the Doomsday Call and the Millennium Bug

Lessons Learned: The Y2K panic serves as a valuable lesson in the importance of proactive measures and preparedness. It highlighted the need for ...