Did the Y2K emergency really exist or was it a conspiracy?
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It was something people thought might be real (the problem was real enough, it just wasn't even the slightest bit serious, as it turned out...) I think the problem was just that computers clocks would switch back to date 01/01/00, and people thought that would do something nasty... Erm, to answer directly according to your wording... It was only a perceived emergency, and it was not a conspiracy.
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It wasn't an emergency; it was a threat, which is a potential emergency. Because of the potential for mass disruption of the entire support system of our lives and infrastructure, it was a very real threat. The fact that nothing much happened as the clocks turned is proof that the resolutions and 'fixes' that everyone performed actually DID work, with a few minor exceptions.
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I work in IT. It was real, no conspiracy. We had to update all of our software to be Y2K compliant. I was working when we entered the year 2000. We only had one software glitch which was solved in about 5 hours time.
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