Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
Many of us teaching programming surmised the problem in the early 1990s and were hired to rewrite code to avoid the problem. Thus 2000 came and went smoothly.


Originally Posted By: VideoTrack
I also worked extensively as an analyst in identifying and undertaking program changes, and exhaustive testing for year 2000 rollover. Everything was achieved successfully.


Matt and VT, thank you for explaining this! I always hear people saying something like "that whole Y2K thing was so overblown and hyped but everything went just fine." Yeah, everything went just fine because of folks like you two who saw the problem and fixed it!