Talk:Pillar of Prophecy/@comment-4795262-20121214015255/@comment-4756055-20121214021900

Actually, all that hype about Y2K is why it wasn't a disaster. The hype raised awareness early enough that the bulk of the computer systems were updated as necessary in plenty of time. It was a very good thing for COBOL programmers, who were hired back in droves to repair older legacy software that dated from the 60s. (I could tell you stories...)