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How many Americans thought Y2K was going to crash the entire world?
The only reason Y2K wasn’t worse was because a shit ton of people were hired to fix it before it happened. I remember folks literally coming to my high school in the late 90s and asking students to learn COBOL so we could help. There was a huge effort to stop it before it happened.
it's COBOL by the way
Ha! Thanks for that. I wasn’t one of the kids who took up the call.