25 Years On From Y2K, Let's All Be Glad It Happened Way Back Then
The Register, Thursday, January 2nd, 2025
With today's connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash
Twenty-five years ago on January 1, despite panic and fear that the world was soon to collapse into chaos, nothing much happened.
Sure, there were issues that hint at the global catastrophe that the Y2K bug might have been, but most, including The Register rolling over to "year Zero," were worth little more than a chuckle.
That said, the fact Y2K rose to little more than a footnote in the annals of the information age is largely due to the hard work and diligence of armies of IT professionals who spent years working out the best way to deploy a relatively simple fix to computers around the world. If not for the herculean effort with which they greeted a potentially sisyphean task, we might have been way worse off.