{"id":454,"date":"2020-07-11T17:49:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog2.com\/b\/?p=454"},"modified":"2020-07-11T17:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:49:04","slug":"y2k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/11\/y2k\/","title":{"rendered":"y2k"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A deadline clip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=1&amp;v=2sJuVsYU1OA&amp;feature=emb_title\">from 1998.<\/a> Now hat we know the outcome it appears to be a rather strange piece. Back then it was not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I oscillated between being worried and being totally calm in respect of my job. After I had set the date forward on the machines in question and they still worked I was not worried. There was a patch one could install so that one utility that nobody had ever heard of would continue to run. Somehow I ended being in charge for a specific slither of computer systems in next larger entity that owned us. I wasn&#8217;t very much liked, probably also since I was an arrogant a*hole, that even was right some of the time. So when I asked for a budget of zero peoples reaction were telling: They were convinced that come January 1st 2000 I would finally be a problem of the past. Didn&#8217;t happen for a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when the road to our house was blocked for non residents January 31st I started to worry again: It eventually ended up at a drinking water reservoir. Where the authorities worried about drinking water for 16 million people? Actually not: They just didn&#8217;t want people to go up there for the fireworks. It came &#8211; it went. 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