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20 Years Later, the Y2K Bug Seems Like a Joke—Because Those Behind the Scenes Took It Seriously (time.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't overblown- lots of transportation and infrastructure systems needed to be updated

If it wasn't done in advance that would have been chaos for weeks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean the "society will collapse, I'm going to stock my bunker" people were overblowing it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Doesn't matter, has bunker