🫡 if you were a sysadmin in 1999
Jason Rusch
2d
Yepperz, I was running Unix (Solaris) and Linux (Debian, Slackware) servers back in that day. But we Penguin bash shell heads didn’t sweet it out as bad as our Windows NT (hahahahaha) colleague’s did.
Tyler King
1d
History has a way of repeating itself.... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Chimeria G.
2d
I was just talking about this last night 😆 What a time to be alive
Oh man, the early career learning I owe to the hype around Y2K. Of course, I love the hindsighters who hold it up as the pinnacle of IT fearmongering, who ignore the fact that we DIDN'T have a serious problem because of the work we did in almost every vertical, over probably hundreds of billions if not trillions of lines of code, millions of systems being replaced and modernized to overcome it, etc. Those were some crazy days that forced many of us who were new in our careers to realize our degrees weren't really all that focused for reality (can I get those hours of Fortran and RPG coding classes back, please?) and that this stuff can be really fun when we have a focused purpose to prevent a problem, reduce the risk it might cause and have a deadline to do it all in!