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Old 4th January 2014 | 16:47
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Mac the Knife

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Sorry ZH875, but you are (ahem) "misinformed"

The main reason there were so few problems is that a lot of people spent a lot of time preparing for it and mitigating it.

"The total cost of the work done in preparation for Y2K is estimated at over US$300 billion ($407 billion in 2014 US dollars).

IDC calculated that the U.S. spent an estimated $134 billion ($182 billion) preparing for Y2K, and another $13 billion ($18 billion) fixing problems in 2000 and 2001.

Worldwide, $308 billion ($418 billion) was estimated to have been spent on Y2K remediation."



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