FizzlePopBerryTwistWhen Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines?
KaiReeveI grew up in Florida and anytime there was a hurricane coming people would flock to the stores and buy all the generators and bottled water.
It was kind of like that, but in December.
Most people I knew personally legit just ignored it. It was just another doomsday hoax like the Mayan calender scare of 2012. Everybody was talking about it, but nobody actually thought it would be an issue.
It wasn’t really a hoax. It was a legitimate problem. Lots of software could have broke. It didn’t because developers were diligent. There was a long leadtime to New Year’s with lots of people working overtime.
Yeah, I understand that it was a legitimate issue for some industries, but at the social level people were saying that all of the world’s nuclear weapons would launch simultaneously and we would enter a post-nuclear apocalypse. At some point a legitimate issue was inflated into a doomsday hoax.
I mean, in your other post you said you lived in Florida. Are you really gonna take Florida Man’s opinion about what would happen at Y2K as a valid one? I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that Florida Man doesn’t have a great track record on… Well, anything.