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Eric Neustadter (e)
@thevowel.com

DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

NPR@npr.org

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

npr.orgY2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking outPeople feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
doctoroctothorpe.bsky.social
@doctoroctothorpe.bsky.social

Same. Patching them all by hand with a floppy or CD. I missed one test system in a lab. An NT 4.0 server. On 1 January 2000 it just dropped off the network and was unreachable. Had to patched and rebooted. Can you imagine what would have happened without all the work done by IT folks in 1998-99?

Mitch Denny
@mitchdenny.dev

I invented software that acted like malware that would search through the NT domain and install itself onto workstations and servers at a remote site audit the machine and then automatically deploy Y2K patches. We could then send a kill message so that my agent would remove itself later.

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Mitch Denny
@mitchdenny.dev

Still required a lot of hand holding and verification. But we could update dozens of sites a night. Only had to go onsite once or twice to figure out what went wrong. It was very throughly tested.