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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It was a problem, but not the existential problem
It was framed as. Planes were never going to fall out of the sky (not sure how a computer glitch was going to nullify the laws of aerodynamics, but people actually believed it). Cars were never going to stop running. Bank accounts were never going to be reset to zero because the computer “thought” we had gone back in time to
1900. But it could have caused lots of smaller hassles and headaches, and the cumulative effect of those could have been expensive and difficult to fix after the fact.
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