solidgrue , 11 months ago

At the time I ran a large campus network where we spent all of December laying in contingency plans and doing tabletop drills just in case some Y2K bug hit and took us out.

I hosted a party that New Year’s Eve, but stayed sober(-ish) so I could assess and deal with any fallout. Midnight approaches, we do the countdown. Clock hits zero and I smooch a couple of the ladies attending. I disappear to my home office upstairs to assess…

2 devices down, same location. 1 more device down, next door. Everything else us up and fine. Odd.

The devices all went down about 20 minutes prior to midnight. Not Y2K. Not critical sites, it can wait til next business day.

I close up shop about 0015 hours 2000-01-01 and go back downstairs to rejoin my party, aiming to catch up with the other drunks. Shenanigans ensue.

Reason For Outage: there was a frat house next door to the two buildings that went down, and they had a house fire that burned the tree out front, which scorched our aerial fiber runs into the next two buildings down. Ridiculous coincides are ridiculous.

So yeah. Y2K was a non-event.