Brexit

[DrPatrickBarry]

This all reminds me of the Millenium Bug.
On the stroke of the new millenium, computers were supposed to fail causing power supplies to fail, planes to fall from the sky, everything to stop working. In a word, Armageddon.
And what happened? A load of IT people made a shedload of money, companies shelled out thousands on bug fixes and the rest of us crossed our fingers and hoped.

Apart from a massive hangover, I did not notice anything different about Jan 1 2000. The harbingers of doom were all piss and wind!!

I am an I.T professional so I know something about this. Let me expain PCs were never the issue with the Millenium Bug. Devices with issues included small devices (hand helds, etc) that contained internal clocks and were optimized as much as possible (due to power/memory constraints) and could not support a four digit year and very old devices, namely old Unix servers running COBOL/DB2 and other old languages. All of these retired COBOL programmers were rehired by the banks to update their ancient programs to support four digit years.

My own company at the time spent a fortune testing and working with manufactures to fix issue with the vibration monitors that were key to our business.

The media were so smarmy with their "there never was a problem" There was not a problem becasue of millions of hours of work by I.T professionals.