Millennium bug. Did you fall for it?

Question

Personally, when it was first reported i thought it was just a big lie, that software companies made up to sell new products. To this day i still feel thats why the millennium bug was made up. There was never any real threat to the computers. It was just made to make those with money richer before the clock turned over to 2000.

Just my opinion.

What were your thoughts about it when it was first reported?? Did you fall for it and go out and buy new software upgrades??

Answer 1

I saw this one coming early on & just continued on about my business. Your opinion is right on on this one.

Answer 2

most people don't feel the effect of the Millennium Bug, why? Because virtually all home computing platform (read: Operating System) has been made Y2K ready before the event.

It is stupid to buy a new software upgrade because of the millennium bug, since the only thing you'd need to upgrade is the Operating System (only if you're using an extremely ancient Operating System, even for that days), and possibly some calendar application (there isn't many that days), or some date-critical, privately owned software (which exist on government, banks, big companies, but nevertheless, they have all the resources to fix the bug)

And no, it wasn't a made up. It is a genuine bug, however it's prevention is early enough (it started since the 1970-80s) that it doesn't make any problem to anything. And because everyone naturally upgraded to a newer OS because of other reasons not related to the Y2K, such as the old OS being no more compatible with everything, or it is no longer supported by the company product cycle, or because they are just interested in the new features of the newer version of their OS.

irmayner: how early do you see the bug. If you only see it around early 1990s or late 1980s, you're seeing it too late. Average if you see it on early 1980s. Liar if you see it on 1940s