What do you remember about Y2K? Did you stockpile supplies, or were you just along for the ride? Share your best panic stories here 😱 A big thanks to .tech for keeping us future-proof and for sponsoring this video ► yt.slidebean.com/Y2K
@@slidebean I was delivering pizza that night. The local ham radio club set up a temporary communications base next to the police station and there were extra police at the hospital. Otherwise it was just a regular shift.
It's so annoying when people try to make out that y2k was a scam. No, the industry worked very hard and fixed the issue. It's almost like big business can solve big problems given enough money and effort......
About 3 years of solid work done by many dedicated teams was needed to make Y2K a non-event. It was a great opportunity for firms to upgrade their systems : a complete new system could be cheaper than the remedial software costs to check/update a legacy system.
I was deployed 500 miles from the North Pole specifically for Y2K, to a military base called Alert in Nunavut as the lone IT support and system admin. The very tip of the most northern island in Canada, the start of a four month tour. They had backups of backups there though, for if the main electrical generating system had gone down. Top of the world, 24 hour darkness and just maybe a Y2k disaster. Course nothing happened.
One of IBM's main sites had a bit of a panic - they couldn't find which computer to check for Y2K issues in their security card etc systems. They eventually found it ... hidden IN the wall of an office.
I worked on large banking y2k projects in London, the amount spent was incredible, but in reality not much would have happened , we found maybe 4 issues that would have been fixed as part of normal BAU. The consultancies made millions off this, hiring out graduates on £1000 per day to sit around and make reports. Good times, we earnt and drank a lot.
Y2K was one of the few times the outrage helped fix the issue otherwise it was never going to be fixed. Heck I remember reading on a PC magazine that Y2K was said to be our punishment for turning out back on 'God'.
Suddenly I feel the urge to write a sci-fi short story about how a combination of apathy, hubris, and greed causes major societal upheaveal 4 billion years from now as we use AI and virtualization to port legacy code to each successive generation of computing technology. Civilization built layer after layer atop ancient legacy code because the code "just works" and nobody wanted to take resources away from new development to update the ancient code base when it was easier to run it inside a virtual machine and build on top of it. From inside the virtual machine the legacy code saw a familiar ancient computer and from outside the virtual machine the modern software saw a peer with all the modern interfaces it was used to.
Firstly Microsoft is going to use you. 😂 Secondly I had a semi-similar story but it was for a VR world game..the VR game had been running for decades but apart from very select few most had no idea that the game world is running on ancient code and that even within the Game Dev company there were special teams who were managing the ancient game code but we're not allowed to talk to the current game developers.
What do you remember about Y2K? Did you stockpile supplies, or were you just along for the ride?
Share your best panic stories here 😱
A big thanks to .tech for keeping us future-proof and for sponsoring this video ► yt.slidebean.com/Y2K
@@slidebean I was delivering pizza that night. The local ham radio club set up a temporary communications base next to the police station and there were extra police at the hospital. Otherwise it was just a regular shift.
6:08 Video Store in North Korea?
Wow North Korea had video stores in 2000? SHOCKED!
It's so annoying when people try to make out that y2k was a scam. No, the industry worked very hard and fixed the issue. It's almost like big business can solve big problems given enough money and effort......
About 3 years of solid work done by many dedicated teams was needed to make Y2K a non-event.
It was a great opportunity for firms to upgrade their systems : a complete new system could be cheaper than the remedial software costs to check/update a legacy system.
I feel like you guys get screwed by the algorithm! This deserves so many more views
I was deployed 500 miles from the North Pole specifically for Y2K, to a military base called Alert in Nunavut as the lone IT support and system admin. The very tip of the most northern island in Canada, the start of a four month tour. They had backups of backups there though, for if the main electrical generating system had gone down. Top of the world, 24 hour darkness and just maybe a Y2k disaster. Course nothing happened.
One of IBM's main sites had a bit of a panic - they couldn't find which computer to check for Y2K issues in their security card etc systems.
They eventually found it ... hidden IN the wall of an office.
I worked on large banking y2k projects in London, the amount spent was incredible, but in reality not much would have happened , we found maybe 4 issues that would have been fixed as part of normal BAU.
The consultancies made millions off this, hiring out graduates on £1000 per day to sit around and make reports.
Good times, we earnt and drank a lot.
😅I made $1200 that day, rebooting PCs and fixing the odd clock. lol
lol awesome!
Most underrated channel on UA-cam.
I love everything Slidebean puts out.
Thank you, we really appreciate it 🥺
Y2K was one of the few times the outrage helped fix the issue otherwise it was never going to be fixed. Heck I remember reading on a PC magazine that Y2K was said to be our punishment for turning out back on 'God'.
Years later after Y2K, major governments would collaborate with Mayans to fix the Y2012 calendar bug, averting disaster!
😂😂
Do something on Fanta. The one with the logo you are putting on was sweet
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6:08 Video Store in North Korea?
Wow North Korea had video stores in 2000? SHOCKED!
1:54 Typical Greenspan.
Suddenly I feel the urge to write a sci-fi short story about how a combination of apathy, hubris, and greed causes major societal upheaveal 4 billion years from now as we use AI and virtualization to port legacy code to each successive generation of computing technology. Civilization built layer after layer atop ancient legacy code because the code "just works" and nobody wanted to take resources away from new development to update the ancient code base when it was easier to run it inside a virtual machine and build on top of it. From inside the virtual machine the legacy code saw a familiar ancient computer and from outside the virtual machine the modern software saw a peer with all the modern interfaces it was used to.
Firstly Microsoft is going to use you. 😂 Secondly I had a semi-similar story but it was for a VR world game..the VR game had been running for decades but apart from very select few most had no idea that the game world is running on ancient code and that even within the Game Dev company there were special teams who were managing the ancient game code but we're not allowed to talk to the current game developers.
Money and an awful lot of hours by us long suffering IT guys and girls.
Wish I was there
yea, we fixed a few thousand lines of COBOL to make sure your online banking still sucks in 2024
I never took this seriously
hahaha, this video is a future warning for "future gpt's"
Better to be on their good side
@@slidebean you're a cool dude, love your videos on both channels 😁
i cannot overstate how ANNOYING these ai slop voices are
… or the gpts, or whoever’s in charge… 😂😂😂
The thumbnail is bad nobody knows what Y2K means
Everybody knows it means Year 2000 😮
I hate to say it but bro fell off😅. But seriously this is one of my favourite videos.
Unforgiving algo.