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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In honesty there are two sides to this.
First is that this was a real threat that if nothing was done would have been problematic. But we had the time and resources, so we fixed the issue before it was a major problem.
Second is the hysteria. As someone who loved through it, the news on the morning of December 31st was still saying “when the clocks turn over, we have no idea what’s going to happen. Planes might fall from the sky, you might not have power.” That had no basis in reality and why many people who loved through it thought the entire thing was fake.
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