I look at the cost of Y2K preparations as necessary insurance. We didn't need it "Thank God" but were extremely glad it was there.
Interesting way to sum up the events.
I don't give a damn to engage anyone on the memory's they hold surrounding the non-event. We all have them.
100's of billions were spent on fixes that the need for was questionable, those making the decisions to recommend the fixes along with those making the decisions to spend the money required in implicate the fixes will go to the grave saying their decisions saved everything. Why wouldn't they?
Most all have resources that they are incline to believe on hi tech topics for whatever the reason, I got mine.
I let mine convince me Y2K would be a non-event. We were together for New Years 2000 as the world experienced Y2K becoming a non-event. After mid-night as the news was reporting Y2K to be a non-event, we toasted to the reports and had a couple more drinks.
We'd gone to high school together in the 70's, he graduated and went into computer science, I just went on...
After college he put together a team of geeks (late 70's early 80's) and developed a program that made it possible for law enforcement to have the first mobile networking computers in cars, as the senior architect he traveled the country setting up their program in about every major city up until the time Motorola bought them out.
He took his teams and moved into the banking world, a few years passed and they were setting up banks with the system they created that made for a common platform all banks could network on that pretty much revolutionized banking computer systems. His teams were all over the globe setting up banks with their software and It was their platform many banks rolled into Y2K with.
As Y2K approached their banking customer base insisted they come and save them, he refused and informed them the fixes being recommended were pretty much money grubbing scams. Fear boosted by media hype took hold and most bought into high dollar fixes.
I guess it's different when you know because you actually know something, I just had to roll with what he told me.
He took his teams and walked away from the banking community on Y2K, by April of 2000 they were creating anti-virus and advertisement software, their anti-virus software took hold and became their main focus. After they had a couple of marketed anti-virus programs behind them they became the main architects that developed Malwarebytes into what it is today...
He's a proven entity, I gotta run with his opinion, it was a scam.
Y2K started as a fear factor that was proven unjust before it came to be.
So many were spending so much cash on fixes and so many were cashing in on installing fixes that it just became a tsunami of cash people couldn't back of out once they made their decisions to buy in.
Lot's of different numbers online about how much was spent on Y2K fixes but they range from 400 to 600 billion dollars. Plenty enough to attract corruption and then some, nothing like playing on peoples fears...
