After the collective sigh of relief in the first few days of January 2000, however, Y2K morphed into a punch line, as relief gave way to derision — as is so often the case when warnings appear unnecessary after they are heeded. It was called a big hoax; the effort to fix it a waste of time.
Who is Y2K ‘Czar’ Mikko Koskinen?
Koskinen, however, had timed his flight that way on purpose. He was President Bill Clinton’s Y2K “czar,” and he flew that night to prove to a jittery public — and scrutinizing press — that after an extensive, multi-year effort, the country was ready for the new millennium.
What was the Y2K crisis?
The term Y2K had become shorthand for a problem stemming from the clash of the upcoming Year 2000 and the two-digit year format utilized by early coders to minimize use of computer memory, then an expensive commodity.
Was the Y2K bug a joke or a reality?
20 Years Later, the Y2K bug seems like a joke. That’s because those behind the scenes then took it seriously | Time The power grid is lit in the final days of Y2K testing at the Niagara Mohawk Power Company control facility in Buffalo, N.Y., Dec. 28, 1999.
