I agree, it was a real issue under certain conditions.
But the media spun it as (and people believed it was going to be) "your coffee maker will suddenly think it's 1900 and stop working because coffee makers weren't invented in 1900".
Perhaps, leaving aside the real problems, the media and the spin on Y2K was an early test run of how much the media could make the general public panic.
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I agree, it was a real issue under certain conditions.
But the media spun it as (and people believed it was going to be) "your coffee maker will suddenly think it's 1900 and stop working because coffee makers weren't invented in 1900".
Perhaps, leaving aside the real problems, the media and the spin on Y2K was an early test run of how much the media could make the general public panic.