Y2K isn't one story - there was a technical side and there was the hyperbole.
We went from Y2K - an 'acronym' for 'Year 2000' - a purely technical issue about a field overflow problem to?
TEOTWAWKI --- another acronym for THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!!! ... caps and exclamation points are used deliberately to convey what can only be described as unfettered hysteria.
Join Peter as he explores how the message of this technical issue was almost destined to spin out of control. And... his look back on how he was involved on both sides of the final perception of Y2K
Cheers
Peter de Jager
p.s. This podcast is meant to be a lookback at Y2K and those who were involved - IF you were involved? Contact me - your story should be a part of this archive.
Episode #28 - Last Episode - The Directors and Producers of HBO’s Time Bomb Y2K
Interview Interlude - Vincent Balouet - Y2K In France
Interview Interlude - Michael Mainelli - Sheriff of London
Interview Interlude - A second Interview with Prudential Insurance
Episode #16 In Closing
Episode #15 The Question of Italy
Interview Interlude: Maryfran Johnson - a Computerworld Editor's Perspective of Y2K
Episode #14 Articles as Artefacts and How Computers Fail in Strange Ways
Episode #13 Articles as Artefacts and something new
Episode #12 A Trip back to the LOMA 1995 Systems Forum
Interview Interlude: Robert J. Sawyer: Y2K the long View
Episode #11 Missed Opportunities Y2K Legacy Systems
Episode #10 The Embedded System Problem
Episode #09 Y2K & COVID-19 What They Share
Episode #08 24 Conferences 4 Countries 60 Minutes
Episode #07 It was a Change Problem - Part 2 of 2
An Interview Interlude - A Y2K Conversation with a Journalist
Episode #06 It was a Change Problem
Update on the Y2K Interviews
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Insight Story: Tech Trends Unpacked
Zero-Shot
Fast Forward by Tomorrow Unlocked: Tech past, tech future
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Unbelivable Truth - Series 1 - 26 including specials and pilot