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Y2K Glossary

This glossary includes words, phrases, acronyms, and names that were commonly used in online Y2K discussion such as the posts on On This Day Pre-Y2K, some of which also appear in The End as I Know It.

A few of these terms have somewhat different definitions in their original, more mainstream usages; I’ve tried to capture the senses in which they tended to be used in the context of Y2K discussion.

7-11 assessment Big Iron BITR bugout bag carrying capacity COBOL compliant csy2k de Jager, Peter deathmarch DGI Doombrood doomer DWGI Eastabrook scale Edwards scale embeddeds, embedded chips enterprise (systems) fiat currency Fortran fractional reserve banking geek GI grid, power grid Hamasaki, Cory Infomagic

Iron Triangle JIT, just-in-time production Jo Anne Effect Koskinen, John legacy code/software/applications Milne, Paul mission-critical North, Gary off the grid Pareto’s Principle/Law/Rule (80/20 rule) polly, Pollyanna preps reinfect, reinfection remediation rollover SCADA SSA TEOTWAWKI toast triage WDCY2K, WDC Y2K windowing WRP Yardeni, Edward Yourdon, Ed