I was born in 2000. I’ve always heard that Y2K was just dramatics and paranoia, but I’ve also read that it was justified and it was handled by endless hours of fixing the programming. So, which is it? Was it people being paranoid for no reason, or was there some justification for their paranoia? Would the world really have collapsed if they didn’t fix it?
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Y2K was about as big of a problem as the hole in the ozone layer was: it was a massive, potentially civilization-altering problem, but it had a simple, easy-to-implement (though time-consuming) solution.
I would also compare it to a race car driver getting a flat tire. He absolutely cannot win the race with a flat tire, and it would be disastrous to try to, but he can simply do a pit stop and get a new tire. Big problem, but easy solution.
Y2K was only going to be an issue if we literally did nothing about it. Instead, we knew it was a potential issue decades out, and the solution was some extremely basic programming that literally millions of people could have accomplished.
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