[Themaintainers] Happy not-Y2K bug 🐛 20 years anniversary to all maintainer people

[Cowan, Ruth S]

Take a look at this old-fashioned print article on the subject; seems to me to be better celebration of maintenance and maintainers:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/30/lessons-yk-years-later/


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Ruth Schwartz Cowan. Ph.D.
Janice and Julian Bers Professor, Emerita
History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
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Subject: [Themaintainers] Happy not-Y2K bug 🐛 20 years anniversary to all maintainer people

Dear all

As the year 2019 comes to a closing, it also marks the 20 year anniversary of the Y2K event... or rather mostly non-event, thanks to all the software maintenance labour back then. A fine occasion to celebrate and study and learn from it!

This is being discussed on Twitter under #y2k and Computerphile made an episode about it too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrKKrsIpQw. Send your favourite academic references :)

*Happy new year everyone*
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Mace Ojala
Research Assistant or something, I've lost track
IT University of Copenhagen
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