h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think that this was a big disappointment to geeks, the rest of us were relieved not to be hit by crashing airliners. I wish 9/11 was as big of a bust.

If wishes were fishes we'd never starve!

Thank you for chronicling this amazing moment in non-history.

Future generations would never believe it otherwise.

Sounds daft now but the state of alert we were at in England was bloody scary at the time!

There are, of course, two theories about the millenium bug.

The first is that the vast amount of money spent on the problem was well spent and that catastrophy was averted. The second is that all the money was wasted and that we would have got away with it anyway.

Speaking as a geek, I remember writing code for embedded systems in the 80's that was millenium aware. As soon as the code was complex enough to need to understand leapyears it seemed obvious that other potential date anomalies were potentially important (interesting). I know very few geeks who wouldn't take the same approach.

I always thought that in the worst case a few billing systems would mis-charge over the period. I don't think I would have taken the risk of flying over the change though.