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Discussion on: Which computer era would have been the most exciting to take part in?

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Vicente G. Reyes

The Y2K era! It would be fun to see devs expecting a worldwide crash on systems and laugh about it when nothing happened. lol

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Vuild

Loads of people did work to make sure it was ok too.

But yes. One washing machine turned off.I have a sticker somewhere.

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Ben Halpern

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Thomas H Jones II

Y2K was fun: I got $1000 just to be on available in case something blew up (and would have gotten double-time had they actually had to call me). Nothing blew up and I got to pocket the $1000 for doing nothing other than staying sober.

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Ken Bellows

just to be clear on that one, it wasn't that nothing happened, it was that a ton of IT staff all over the world (including my dad) had a mad rush to patch critical systems to prevent the bug

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

You can see that again in roughly 19 years. The issue caused by the rollover of the 32-bit UNIX time era will however probably not be something that just gets laughed off afterwards. Unlike Y2K, much of the affected code is running in places that quite simply can't be updated even if people wanted to fix them.