• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    8 months ago

    Similar with Y2K --- it was only a nothingburger because it was taken seriously, and funded well. But the narrative is sometimes, "yeah lol it was a dud."

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      I can't remember the name but I think this is some kind of paradox.

      Like the preventative measures we're so effective that they created a perception that there was no risk in the first place.

    • neidu2@feddit.nl
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      8 months ago

      I wasn't working in the IT field back then, as I was only 16, but as I knew that it'd most likely be my field one day (yup, I was right), I followed this closely due to interest, and applied patches accordingly.

      Everything kept working fine except this one modem I had.