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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As a millennial I feel like this was the root of so much anxiety. As an adolescent you start getting excited for the year 2000 and all of these celebrations are getting going but at the same time you’re being told constantly that the whole world may collapse because of an innocent decision that was made by adults decades ago. It’s not a malicious thing, no one is trying to destroy you with nuclear war but all of our society is so fragile that a tiny, insignificant malfunction could cripple the globe and set us back centuries so be prepared for that to happen. Or maybe it won’t, it’s a race against time you can’t contribute to. Oh I guess everything’s okay now, let’s make a bunch of jokes about it and laugh at how we thought one random day could change the course of history in our lifetimes. Then September 11th rolls around and yeah, fun times.
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