Y2K.... hahaha doom and gloom...
We were getting all kinds of information and I was going to seminars, I was listening to experts in preparedness for all sorts of fantastical scenarios were being bandied about. And yes to cod cutters were very busy. I was working for a company that was concerned.
About halfway through a bunch of this BS, I made my own plan. I bought coffee and bourbon. I figured there is nothing that I couldn’t trade for coffee and bourbon. And I also knew in the back of my mind that every bit of critical infrastructure in this country all had manual backup processes. From electrical substations to railroad tracks, dams, nuclear reactors. Whatever.
There was always a manual backup. Some wheel to turn, or switch to throw... it wasn’t all computerized down to the inth degree... that didn’t exist in 1999.
I don’t know about now but it was farcical in 1999... and I drank coffee and bourbon for years afterwards...