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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 June 2013 06:34:12AM 0 points [-]

On a smaller, not-quite-world-ending scale, Y2K was a non-event because thousands of programmers spent tens, perhaps hundreds-of-thousands of work-years fixing the problem before it could instantiate.

Except, it was a non-event even in those places where this didn't happen.

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