[Fai Mao]

You don’t remember the Year 2000 bug?

The banking system was supposed to collapse!

[P.O.E.]

I was cleaning out the basement over the summer and found water I had stored for the Y2K computer catastrophe way in the back of the crawl space. Passed the sniff test, so I just left it there. But I must admit to feeling a little foolish.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I actually did do a few things to prepare for that on the assumption that things designed by humans will fail. Came in handy later when we had an ice storm. :)

But the moment I knew the thing was completely overblown was when I heard one of the "Voices of Doom" (TM) declare somberly that planes would fall out of the sky because the computers would think it was 1900 and "flying had not been invented yet".

What I do remember most about it is my company had to be Y2K compliant so we had to get an entire new ordering and inventory control system. We were a small manufacturing company so having one scratch built was out of the question so the guys in IT jury rigged up one that was based on a point of sale system. And every now and then if you hit the right combination of keys it would pop up a drinks menu.