“But I was also furious that our entire country had fussed and worried about this for nearly a YEAR, and it was all a hoax.”
It was a real issue. But a lot of hard work by talented IT people made it turn out to be a non issue.
That is why I didn’t worry about it; I had confidence that Americans were smart enough to fix it; and we had a lot of time to prepare.
Indeed there was a problem, and it had been solved (my dear late husband was one of the talented IT people to whom you refer), but the MEDIA and others persisted in the hand-wringing and doom-saying, so that it had become a daily drumbeat of fear. THAT was the hoax...not the actual computer issue.
I am sorry if I sounded like i was denigrating the actual people who worked on the problem. THEY were not the culprits. The Media were.
I didn't "worry" about it. I worked on it, starting in about 1997.
I had confidence that Americans were smart enough to fix it;
Thank you.
and we had a lot of time to prepare.
We did indeed. By the time the brainless idiots in Big Media found out about it, it was largely a solved problem.