{"id":889301,"date":"2026-02-01T01:17:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/when-the-lights-went-out-and-the-shooting-started-y2k-started-to-feel-all-too-real\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:17:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:17:46","slug":"when-the-lights-went-out-and-the-shooting-started-y2k-started-to-feel-all-too-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/when-the-lights-went-out-and-the-shooting-started-y2k-started-to-feel-all-too-real\/","title":{"rendered":"When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers On Call Y2K\u00a0 Welcome to a special festive season edition of On Call, in which we share readers&#8217; stories of working on the 31st of December 1999 \u2013 the moment the tech world held its breath and hoped years of Year 2000 bug remediation efforts would work.\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/12\/29\/on_call\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Simon Sharwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers On Call Y2K\u00a0 Welcome to a special festive season edition of On Call, in which we share readers&#8217; stories of working on the 31st of December 1999 \u2013 the moment the tech world held its breath and hoped years of Year 2000 bug remediation efforts would<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4452,192,25622],"tags":[10541,9990],"class_list":{"0":"post-889301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lights","8":"category-sports","9":"category-started","10":"tag-lights","11":"tag-started"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}