Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

When I saw the article about "Worldwide IT Systems Problems", the first thing I thought was that this is just another buzzword headline for an article full of bullshit, as usual.

I didn't even want to read it, but after some time, when there were a lot of similar articles on different websites, I decided to read some of them.

I was really surprised that it looked relatively serious, but I was still not convinced. At first there was not much information, just some random "blackouts" of airports... Something that still seemed like captchphrases that we can see every day.

Later, when I finally saw some serious information and official statements about the untested update being sent to corporate machines, I finally believed that it was real.

The first thing I thought about was the comparison with the Y2K problem, and the funny fact that I think that Y2K was relatively funny, and not so serious, as there were mayor count of computers that were not facing the problems, this one came with no warning.

On the other hand, it was only a matter of time when something like this would happen. It is just a reminder of how much we depend on the internet and computers. Hopefully it will be an important warning for all of us to be a bit more careful and to have some backup plans for these situations.