It Was 20 Years Ago Today

[Bradley K. Sherman]

1 january 2000:
A whole lot of whackjobs were wiping a whole lot of
egg off a whole lot of faces, and the bottom dropped
out of the generator market.

--bks

[Chris Weston]

And a whole bunch of programmers (before we called ourselves Devs) looked up from their new projects having done the hard work previously, and hoped everyone would learn a lesson about technical debt...

--
Chris Weston

[Arnold Trembley]

It was a crazy time...

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/when-russia-and-america-cooperated-to-avert-a-y2k-apocalypse?utm_source=pocket-newtab



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https://www.arnoldtrembley.com/

[docd...@panix.com]

In article <no-dndKNguyhzIzD...@giganews.com>,

Arnold Trembley <arnold....@att.net> wrote:
>On 1/1/2020 6:15 PM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
>> 1 january 2000:
>> A whole lot of whackjobs were wiping a whole lot of
>> egg off a whole lot of faces, and the bottom dropped
>> out of the generator market.
>>
>> --bks
>>
>
>It was a crazy time...

... and I'm still getting emails from head-hunters offering jobs... and at
the same rates, too!.

DD

[Chris Weston]

Maybe you should stop posting to comp.sci.computerprogrammerjobs ;-)

--
Chris Weston

[docd...@panix.com]

In article <210e1fb0-24ec-46de...@googlegroups.com>,

Chris Weston <chris....@gmail.com> wrote:
>Maybe you should stop posting to comp.sci.computerprogrammerjobs ;-)

It's not easy to stop what you haven't started... but if it were easy then
anybody could do it so it's a job for me!

DD

[wen...@cix.compulink.co.uk]

In article <303bd6da-528c-465e...@googlegroups.com>,
chris....@gmail.com (Chris Weston) wrote:

> *From:* Chris Weston <chris....@gmail.com>
> *Date:* Fri, 3 Jan 2020 01:01:39 -0800 (PST)

Yes, and sadly a lot of people now think it wasn't ever really a problem...

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