Background Information on WTO and Y2K – August 2019
Jasmine May2020-06-18T20:08:01+00:00WTO and Y2K: The Story I Was Never Asked to Tell – Background Information on WTO and Y2K By Jim Mullen Emergency Management, Once Removed Y2K In early 1999, concerns surfaced across the public and private sector that the turn of the century would require a rewrite of coding for a number of computer operated machines. Among the darkest predictions if this was not adequately addressed were dam failures, streetlights malfunctioning, missiles accidentally launched, missed payrolls, key documents lost or difficult to recover. Throughout the world, information technology experts were tasked with identifying and minimizing these potential disruptions. Seattle was [...]