Centipedes In Utero
Sounds like a load of hogwash, like the Y2K scare.
Super Sarah IT Girl
Eh. It's no different than the y2k scare.
But the Y2K Problem DID cause issues.
Billions of dollars had to be spent to check, fix, and upgrade computer systems in companies and organizations worldwide, and there is evidence of at least one date-related banking failure caused directly by the Y2K rollover.
And s**t-tonnes of little issues arose from it too.
For instance:
- 10,000 card swipe machines issued by HSBC stopped processing credit and debit card transactions. The stores relied on paper transactions until the machines started working again on 1 January.
- In Sheffield, United Kingdom, incorrect Down's syndrome test results were sent to 154 pregnant women and two abortions were carried out as a direct result of a Y2K bug.
- In Onagawa, Japan, an alarm sounded at a nuclear power plant at two minutes after midnight. The whole plant had to be shut down temporarily. In the mean time, blackouts were common during peak-hours.
- In Australia, bus-ticket-validation machines in two states failed to operate
This is just a small sample. There were thousands more documented issues caused by the Y2K bug.
The fact that the glitch didn't cause cause any widespread and devastating damage is vindication of how much we prepared for the event, not the falsehood of the event itself.
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