I don't know how many of you all remember late 1999.

[wysimdnwyg]

29. This

I couldn’t tell you how much effort my company put into making the changes to four digit years in code. I was in QA at the time, and it felt like all I did for months was to come up with new ideas for how we could test the code changes.

Having been in IT both before and after y2k, I’ve seen firsthand how something so simple could have completely broken a system. Extrapolating out, I understand that it was never going to be as bad as the “end of the world” doom and gloom suggested, but without all the work I, my colleagues, and everyone else involved in fixing it performed, it could have been devastating.

As it relates to this election, don’t assume it will work out. We have to put in the work to ensure a non-devastating result for the country.