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marlynnofmany · 4 months

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You know how in stories where the heroes save the world from some magical apocalypse, a lot of the time the general public has no idea? They just go about their lives afterward, not even realizing how close they came to disaster, much less that there's someone to thank for that?

Picture how those heroes feel.

That's how the programmers who stopped the Y2K bug most likely feel.

Thanks for saving us, folks. I just heard the song "Party Like It's 1999", and thought of you.

#Y2K #I was there Gandalf #and I didnt have the slightest idea that there had been a real danger #everyone was so worried beforehand #but the when the clocks rolled over to 2000 #and none of the computers controlling key points of society went haywire #everybody collectively shrugged and laughed #'lol whoops'#'guess there was nothing to worry about after all'#when in fact there very much was #and somehow they never got credit #for averting that particular apocalypse #at least we can talk about it now #hooray for the internet #a source of many things I would otherwise not know

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