Whatever Happened to Y2K??

The more I read of the crisis caused by global warming, the more I feel like I’ve seen this all before. Recently. When I started out in the IT biz it was just in time to partake of the hysteria and profits from the terrible Millenium Bug. I worked diligently to update my company’s computers one hot August weekend, where soon I discovered office buildings turn the air conditioning off on weekends. Nice. Soon after, the company sold me to Ministry of Health to do some of their Y2K remediation. That was a sweet contract. I got paid well, and my company charged my time at almost $100/hr (remember, I was a know nothing noob! ) I got to travel across the province, stay in nice hotels, and all I had to do was look at computers and research if they, or their apps, were certified Y2K-compliant. Many weren’t. Then I set-up the new equipment and waited for midnight, December 31st, 1999. You see, I couldn’t party, drink, or even go out that night, I had to wait by my phone, on call, in case the world really ended. It didn’t.

At least it didn’t take the media long to find the next earth shattering threat to human survival. I wouldn’t want anyone to be bored.