But the achievement is that the computers clicked over to Jan. 1, 2000. The power grids work. The food is being delivered, and the oil is running. The world financial systems are trading with each other. The banks are open and working.
Telecommunications is up.
Airplanes are flying and air control systems are tracking them. The nuclear missiles remain safely sheathed. Sure there were Y2K alarmists, both sincere and those out to make a buck. But their anecdotal reports of impending catastrophe, while theoretically possible, seemed fragmentary and thin, at least to this skeptical reporter. I was dropped from the list a few months ago, perhaps when someone figured out I wasn't going to be ordering packaged food and other survival tools from the Web site.