Today is also another day which we have, over time, seemed to have forgotten, or lost. But, if you recall, it was a day which we also feared. And now, it isn’t generally one which we even remember much anymore.
Yes, Friends. Today is the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Y2K. I was my Bank's Y2K Co-ordinator and was going to be held to the fire if all my testing failed me.
Remember how much we were concerned that even with all our testing, we feared nothing would work on the morning of January 1, 2000? So naïve we were!
Lights out. Would not see the Ball Drop on the Dick Clark Show! No running water! And concern banks would pay one hundred years of interest on Savings accounts, while charging one hundred years of interest on loans.
A funny thing also happened that night. My then fourteen-year-old son showed his creativity with a house full of family and friends (maybe sixty or so guests). Suddenly, as the crowd watched the TV and was counting down to midnight, just as the ball hit, our lights went out.
We stood stunned for a moment until I went to check the breakers and found him and his friends hysterical at what they did. Rather than becoming annoyed, I joined in the laughter, wishing that I had thought of this.
We turned the lights back on to the relief and then, delight of all present.
Twenty-five years have passed since then, and I still find that New Year’s Eve to be the best one in my life. I still laugh how foolish we all had been, worrying about things we actually DID control, but doubted ourselves.
And remembering how we thought we were so technologically advanced or we thought we were. But really weren’t.
So, let me wish you all a Happy Twenty-Fifth Anniversary for surviving Y2K and getting well beyond those much more simple times. But to recapture it all one more time, well, reality says it is all a fond and distant memory.
But enjoy it because that time and place helped to make us who we are. Today.
Happy New Year, Everyone!
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