Y2K

[Eric Oyen]

well, yates had this to say about the world ending..

This is the way the world ends…
Not with a bang, but with a Wimper.

-eric
from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Poetry and literacy Dept.

On Dec 25, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Snyder, Alexander J wrote:

> I was 19 and already quite tech literate. I knew nothing catastrophic was going to happen ... well, at least nothing "end of days" level ... 
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> My friends mom was another story. She bought canned food and jugs of water, enough to seriously sustain for months!
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> It all passed with a whimper in Olympia Washington, and all had a good night.
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> Thanks,
> Alex.
> 
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+
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> On Dec 25, 2017 06:38, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Y2K was 18 years ago.  Do you remember where you were?  I do. 
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> I had just gotten off a large Y2K project and my wife and I did some prepping...  Looking back we did not do enough given the potential for catastrophic failure.  
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> We stayed up all night glued to the TV watching as each time zone passed into Y2K.  As I recall there was two minor issues.  A small power station had some issues... and I do not recall the other one.
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> I remember there was a lot of speculation because there was so much technology out there that was untested and it was uncertain if it would fail or continue once Y2K was reached.  And in 1999 there was so much less technology than there is today.... 
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