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I was IT lead at a software company for the Y2K thing. I prepared, had a back up generator for the server room, skipped any celebrations to be there - just in case.
The server for the voicemail system crashed and had to be rebooted. Everything else sailed through without a glitch. It was a big snooze.
Likewise. It was a big snooze for my software team. No problems at all.
 
I was IT lead at a software company for the Y2K thing. I prepared, had a back up generator for the server room, skipped any celebrations to be there - just in case.
The server for the voicemail system crashed and had to be rebooted. Everything else sailed through without a glitch. It was a big snooze.
I was doing Telecom Central office switching back in 2000. Fortunately I was a hardware guy at the time so if there was an issue there was not much I could do about it. The SW guys had a war room setup watching to see if Australia went down as they get hit first. Turned out to be a big nothing burger.
 
I was working for the Department of Defense at the time. We considered it such a non-event for my command that we had a very small group of people on call, but I spent it on The Mall in Washington DC ringing in the new year with the big concert they were doing in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Was quite a show.

However, I lost 2+ years of my life prior to that, overseeing a TON of software and hardware upgrades as well as non-stop integration testing. So yeah, the night was nothing... but the 2 years of prep... that was a LOT of work.
 
I was working for the Department of Defense at the time. We considered it such a non-event for my command that we had a very small group of people on call, but I spent it on The Mall in Washington DC ringing in the new year with the big concert they were doing in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Was quite a show.

However, I lost 2+ years of my life prior to that, overseeing a TON of software and hardware upgrades as well as non-stop integration testing. So yeah, the night was nothing... but the 2 years of prep... that was a LOT of work.
... which is why the night was nothing. My company had the same experience. I did have one admin watching the servers in the data center and received the "everything is good" page at 12:03am while I at Y2K New Year's Eve party.
 
Likewise. It was a big snooze for my software team. No problems at all.
I was working in IT for a "big airline" based in Atlanta on Y2K.

We had a war room set up, and were ready for anything. We had two things happen.

1. A part of the reservations system went down. While we were trying to figure it out one of the (then to me) old programmers showed up looking like he just crawled out of bed. He sat down at a terminal, made a small change, the system came back up. He got up and left. Apparently, he had been doing this for something like 15 years every year switchover. It was a legacy system they refused to shut down or fix.

The CIO was in the room, and had put his favorite company jacket on a lamp in the room. Someone later turned on the lamp with a switch. It was a high power halogen lamp, and eventually his jacket caught on fire. It was put out, was framed and then hung inside the war room (which was the corporate situation room) with a plaque that say something along the line of "The only thing not to survive Y2K".
 
I was in the Canary Islands for Y2K on a trip. We were concerned about getting stuck there but no issues there either.
 
tbh I wouldn't have been that concerned about getting stuck in the Canary Islands...
Well we were there for 10 days. We were ready to leave.
 
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