In 1998 my wife, an IBM AS/400 programmer, was made an offer she could not refuse, to come to the UK and save civilization from the year 2000 bug. Around the same time there was a story circulating on the Internet about a guy called ‘John Titor,’ a time traveller from 2036 who had been sent to get software from an IBM 5100. They needed to debug various legacy computer programs as they in the future were due to have a similar year 2000 bug problem with UNIX machines in 2038. Let’s hope he got what he came for. Or we’ll all have to go through this, ‘End of the World,’ nonsense again. So off went the wife to work on her, “Save the world from the YK2 AS/400 bug program.” While I marched around West Byfleet with our kids, looking to offload them to the various schools. In we…
