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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While the hysteria was overblown, the problem was real and would have caused significant disruption to daily life, if not the cataclysm some predicted.
However, the problem was well known and lots of people worked to upgrade or replace affected systems before y2k. This is why some people call it a scam because nothing happened, but that was precisely the desired effect.
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