Oldfags

It was a big nothing burger.

y2k was the dumbest fucking shit i ever lived through and I was just 13 years old. I held all adults around me in terrible contempt.
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Because even before then I could set the computers date to 2001 and the fucking thing didn't explode.

People thought planes were going to fall from the sky. But almost everyone knew it was going to be a nothingburger.

no one gave a shit we just listened to that prince song a lot and I had this sweet watch that lit up and made noises at midnight on nye 99'

Unfortunately programmers fixed almost all the bugs and we missed out on an epic happening.

There was a lot of hype, but it was mainly to generate jobs for consultants to patch old software. Maybe if no software updates had been made it would have been a big deal, but every major company literally poured millions into consultant payments for mitigation and "disaster recovery" planning in the leadup to the cutoff date.

It was also anti-climactic in the US because we got to see Australia roll over to 2000 a full 24 hours ahead of us. When nothing bad happened to Australia in the first couple of hours, it was clear it was a nothingburger.

Had Yas Forums existed then, I'm sure there would have been a huge contingent of "disaster porn" fans posting here openly hoping for a wave of destruction - and when that didn't happen there would have been much salt.

The dumbest 75% of the country either did not depend on computers or didn’t know they depended on computers. Computers were mystery boxes, that ran in magic. People didn’t know if planes would fall out of the sky like rocks once their anti-gravity device was turned off. People are idiots, people back then we’re idiots too, they just knew even less. The media was not a fear machine though - at least nothing like after 9/11. Very little happened. Almost nothing.

This is different because in a few weeks the elderly will be dying without ventilators to help them. They are mostly old and useless anyway, but still, hundreds of thousands will die. Then people will actually start distancing for real - and it will probably go away by July. The world is not going to end. Everything will be fine. 50 million or 100 million could die, and the world will still be fine. Nothing is going to stop me from fucking and truckin.

Lmao didn't people say the nukes would launch uncontrollably. Seem to remember people being worried Russia would be completely unprepared for it

youtu.be/Xm5OiB3CPxg if you want a basic idea of what the prepping looked like.

I was 19 at the time. It was thought of as a joke. Not very many prepped for it at all. Somethings were run on computers, but those things didn't really matter. Highly dangerous things controlled by computers (missiles, water treatment, etc) had patches made for them and it was made well known that nuclear missiles wouldn't start flying. I got to feel some tittys that night.