Dear 20 year olds, your wise parents thought that the world would end on Jan 1, 2000.

What was a weeks worth of food supposed to solve?

Living a week longer than everyone else. LOL.

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... actually the "extra" two week supplies we had set aside came in handy when my hubby was laid off ... FOR TWO WEEKS! ...
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are 20 year olds the product of panic sex?

Thats an interesting point....

NOT if you consider the source! PEOPLE magazine is about one step up from supermarket tabloids and is notorious for doing kneepad articles about any celeb who will ante up a few thou' for the priviledge. Insightful journalism it never HAS been. Further, consider this: there are those who would be so thrilled to appear in a rag like that they would eagerly answer the most leading questions a reporter would toss their way.

I'm not saying for one second that there weren't people who were downright obsessed with Y2K - those dozens of GLP articles at the time refuted that in a heartbeat. What I am saying is that those who went overboard are the same types who suffer from OCD and will react similarly every time they are triggered. Rational folks recognized the unknown threat and took appropriate counter measures. And didn't have to buy toilet paper for the next six months like I did. Which did no harm whatsoever. I wonder how many were Boy Scouts and others who simply like to "be prepared"? After all.. isn't that why we carry life, health, car, homeowner's or other forms of insurance - prepping for a day that may never come [except the life insurance, of course!]? But, nobody calls that hysteria.

Last Edited by GSB/LTD on 12/03/2019 05:37 PM

EXACTLY WAS WORKING IN CHEMICAL PLANT HAD HALF OR LINES GO
DOWN SAID IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORST IF AUTOMATION HAVEN'T WORK
ON IT FOR TWO YEARS.

Hate to have to explain this to you but the intelligent parents among us never thought that......

Yeah, thats the excuse you use with your kids.

No, they thought the world would revert back to the pre electricity stage.

Y2K had serious dangers to the modern world. It was not wild hysteria.

This.

This is how I remember Jan 31 1999:

* Dec 31 2019

ah fuck it you know what I mean

Every age group has fallen for an "end of the world" scenario.

Steve was the high priest and prophet of y2k. Lol

It was talked about, but I don't know of anyone that actually believed it. What is was was that all the computers and computer assisted objects would not function because of a calendar flaw due to 88 columns on an old IBM punch card. The world wasn't actually going to end. OP is a poopie head.

Yeah, there were tons of software glitches. Our accounting software didn't recognize the 20 in the date column and values were getting shifted.

Apparently you missed the millions of dollars that were spent by companies fixing that problem. And apparently all of the problems that still happened.
Multiple reactors going into shutdown and a ton of databases going down at midnight, including many police departments, just to name a few.

There was food hoarding and prepping.

Wow, and now the virus.

And now they think the virus will kill them all.

Is this thread for the 20 year olds or the parents?