Hypothetical 1999 timeline (sponsored by....."a@a.a"!)

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.