Just when I thought I couldn't love Zeynep Tufekçi's analyses any more, she acknowledges all the work that went into avoiding Y2K disasters, despite the cultural expectation that we simply laugh at how silly we were for thinking it would be a problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/southwest-airlines-computers.html

I was working my way through grad school at the time as a technical writer on a software team at a bank, and we worked our tails off for two years to fix all the code throughout the systems we managed.