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.
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.