*BLAST FROM THE PAST* (for 'would be' revisionists) "hypothetical 1999 timeline" [Dec '98]

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Very funny comments from "regulars"!

-- Archivist (researching@the.archives), July 08, 2000

Answers

still no takers, huh?

*I* thought it was funny.

-- (@@@@@@@@@.@@@@@@@@@@), July 09, 2000.


Hope this posts right.....

HYPOTHETICAL 1999 TIMELINE

Assessed 1998-12-10

 

DATE

1-DEC-98

1-JAN-99

1-FEB-99

1-MAR-99

1-APR-99

1-MAY-99

1-JUN-99

1-JUL-99

RELATIVE SYSTEM FAILURE RATE

1.3

2.3

2.3

2.0

2.7

2.7

2.7

3.0

IT EVENT

credit card POS errors

 

1 year look ahead failures

Euro conversion

-

-

New York FY failures

Canada, U.K. & Japan FY failures

Other state FY failures

Other foreign FY failures

Other state FY failures

Other foreign FY failures

Other state FY failures

Other foreign FY failures

ECONOMIC EFFECT

-

MIS failures begin

bank withdrawal monitoring begins

News reporting and awareness sharply intensify

Stock market crash

assorted fiscal collapses

Bank runs begin Food runs begin

NBC war in Mid or Far East

bank withdrawal limits imposed

Anti-hoarding laws enacted

-

DATE

1-AUG-99

1-SEP-99

1-OCT-99

1-NOV-99

1-DEC-99

1-JAN-00

1-FEB-00

1-MAR-00

RELATIVE SYSTEM FAILURE RATE

3.7

4.0

4.3

4.3

4.7

10.0

11.0

12.0

 

IT EVENT

GPS rollover

9/9/99 problem

US FY failures

-

1 month look ahead failures

solar radiation disruptions

Y2K rollover in software

Y2K rollover in firmware

domino effect transpires

Leap year problem

Massive database corruption

-

ECONOMIC EFFECT

Shipping crisis begins

NERC/NRC power crisis- outages begin

US Treasury stops check printing

Food shortages begin

rioting

Martial law declared

firearm sales suspended

Air crisis- liability concerns severely restrict travel

Great Blackout of 2000

National Emergency declared

Banking crisis

Stock crisis - markets closed

Oil crisis -rationing begins

Telecom crisis-phone switches jam

severe Third world starvation begins

Great Depression of 2000 begins

massive unemployment

essential air traffic resumes using VFR

worldwide starvation begins



-- (LMAO@funny.doomers), July 10, 2000.

Read the comments of those "regulars" on that thread and REMEMBER them next time the revisionists try and tell you "most people didn't believe y2k was going to be bad on old TB"

Yeah, Right!

-- (LMAO@funny.doomers), July 10, 2000.


Quotably Quoted - What the 2/99 Senate Report Really Said...

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003HW8

-- How the Y2k outlook changed (and@didn't.change), July 10, 2000.


"Those Were the Daze - TB1 Poll from July 99"

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003Qtt

-- (TB@2000.poll), July 10, 2000.



The Changing Y2K Argument

-- (Oct@ber.1999), July 10, 2000.

O MY GAWD i laughed my @ss off!!!

-- (hah@hah.hah!!!!), October 04, 2000.

What's comical is, the total failure of *every single one* of these predictions didn't bother the True Believers a bit. Never once did even one of these folks deign to notice that there HAD to be something wrong with a "big picture" that produced nothing but howlingly wrong predictions. I guess this is what happens to you after you "get it".

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), October 04, 2000.

So right you are Flint. (Are we in the twilight zone?)

Because being prepared is such good advice, it follows that the argument about Y2k severity literally DOES NOT MATTER, GI?

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), October 04, 2000.


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