Well, there was certainly a similar panicked “sky is falling and society will end as we know it” vibe back then with it with some people, not unlike some of the more rabid climate change activists rhetoric I have seen.
I’ll readily admit that I take some of the more dire climate change predictions with a grain of salt because of my Y2K experience. It was a damn nice time to make some money off the panic though.
It’s kinda hilarious in hindsight. Almost everything could still be done analog back in 2000. If we’d have the Y2K problem _now_ the sky might actually fall.
Writing a few, not installing. I was still in hardware development, with a bit of software exposure. Using a shortcut to represent and calculate dates at the time was the norm.
