2000 was taken much more seriously by many more people than 2012 as being a date when the world would end.
There was even a plausible material cause of trouble, that being the 2k “bug”.
>>2000 was taken much more seriously by many more people than 2012 as being a date when the world would end.
There was even a plausible material cause of trouble, that being the 2k “bug”.<<
Yep. It was a tangible and quantifiable problem. And we fixed it. I was a Y2k code remediator. If we had done nothing it would have been catastrophic.