Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

Most people have absolutely no idea how much of a big deal Y2K really was. The reason why it was such a wet firecracker was the massive amount of work people put into avoiding the issues, prior to the turn of the millennium. As the junior guy, at the time, I was the one who got stuck being on-site for the roll-over. One system failed; our phone system's computer. I could have fixed it but wasn't allowed to, because the manager of the Telecom Group wanted the vendor to do it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Most people have absolutely no idea how much of a big deal Y2K really was. The reason why it was such a wet firecracker was the massive amount of work people put into avoiding the issues, prior to the turn of the millennium. As the junior guy, at the time, I was thew one who got stuck being on-site for the roll-over. One system failed; our phone system's computer. I could have fixed it but wasn't allowed to, because the manager of the Telecom Group wanted the vendor to do it.

Yeah, the "ho ho, Y2K was a nothingburger" meme fails to understand that nothing was the result of a heroic amount of effort by thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people.

 

[overgeeked]

Yeah, the "ho ho, Y2K was a nothingburger" meme fails to understand that nothing was the result of a heroic amount of effort by thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people.

Same thing with people talking crap about the hole in the ozone layer, smog reduction, pollution reduction, etc. People trusted scientists and acted. I miss that.

 

[Ryujin]

Yeah, the "ho ho, Y2K was a nothingburger" meme fails to understand that nothing was the result of a heroic amount of effort by thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people.

Specifically in anything that touched government systems (education, banking...) the efforts were Herculean. Systems that were written in the '70s, that no one ever envisioned lasting that long, had to be rewritten. Frequently from the ground, up.

 

[Scribe]

Same thing with people talking crap about the hole in the ozone layer, smog reduction, pollution reduction, etc. People trusted scientists and acted. I miss that.

"Wait you mean my personal feelings based on Twitter, do not in fact outweigh knowledge and experience?!"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"Wait you mean my personal feelings based on Twitter, do not in fact outweigh knowledge and experience?!"

Hey, be fair.

YouTube bears a lot of the blame as well.

 

[trappedslider]

Humans...need I say more?

 

[J.Quondam]

Hey, be fair.

YouTube bears a lot of the blame as well.

Tbh, the regular media deserves blame, too, for treating ignorant opinion equal to fact and truth. In the last 30 or 40 years, they've given too much oxygen to utterly asinine ideas, and now many of those asinine ideas are normalized.
And so here we are, looking forward to the 2025 we have, instead of the 2025 we need.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And so here we are, looking forward to the 2025 we have, instead of the 2025 we need.

Everyone is so excited about cyberpunk until it happens in the real world.

Well, "real world." I fell asleep during the Matrix, but I'm pretty sure that's a plot point.

 

[Alzrius]

First there was Stacy, then Karen, and now apparently Felicia.

Which women's name will become an insult in 2025? I'm guessing Bertha, or maybe Edith. I guess we'll see.