Side Effects of 'Y2K Bug' Prove Benign
The optimism that school technology leaders expressed last month about sidestepping the "Y2K bug" was justified when the calendar rolled over to 2000 and school computers kept humming.
"We have no Y2K-related problems, all the schools are open, and everything's as it is supposed to be," Joseph J. Kirkman, the director of educational technology services at the Broward County, Fla., schools, summed up in an assessment that was echoed in districts across the nation.
Things went so smoothly, in fact—not only in schools but for computer systems of all kinds worldwide—that some commentators are questioning whether there was ever any real threat of serious problems. Perhaps schools, government agencies, and businesses didn't need to spend billions of dollars on fixing the bug...
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