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

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From: themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu [mailto:themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu] On Behalf Of dubravka
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:59 AM
To: Cowan, Ruth S <rcowan at sas.upenn.edu>
Cc: Maintainers <themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu>
Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] Happy not-Y2K bug 🐛 20 years anniversary to all maintainer people

There is also a new text by Geoff Manaugh on Y2K in the new newyorker

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/when-russia-and-america-cooperated-to-avert-a-y2k-apocalypse

On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, 05:03 Cowan, Ruth S, <rcowan at sas.upenn.edu<mailto:rcowan at sas.upenn.edu>> wrote:
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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History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
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From: themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu<mailto:themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu> [mailto:themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu<mailto:themaintainers-bounces at lists.stevens.edu>] On Behalf Of mace ojala
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 7:52 PM
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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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