Year 2000 End of the World?

Question

Was it all just a ploy to see how we would react?

Answer 1

Doomsday predictions have been failing for thousands of years. They rely on people's short memories, who quickly forget about the last failed prediction. Where would religion be without, 'The end is near' message?

Answer 2

I guess it depends on how you look at it, i mean can you possibly compare how things are today with how they used to be? Our loss of freedom, our debasement of freedom of speech, who's to say that the end of (the old) world hasn't come? Maybe the year 2000 was a watershed after all? Perhaps the end of (our) World really has come? All things are relative.....

Answer 3

Its all about the almighty dollar.  They sold more bottles of water and matches.............

Answer 4

Probably will end soon, fuel shortages, wasting more food then ever and water droughts. Doesn't take a genius...

Answer 5

It was based on how people had reacted to 1800 1900. there were some making a buck off of it. Got my first computer Fall of 1999, so Y2K was on my mind.

Answer 6

No; there were some real issues.  The important thing was the problem called Y2K: the fact that many computer data bases allowed only two characters to denote the year, and getting these to work in some reasonable fashion in 2000 and beyond was a matter on which many billions of dollars were spent to make sure that things kept working right.  The effort was mostly successful; very few instances of data screwups were reported.

Answer 7

No, it was stupidity. People spread that rumor. No one to blame but themselves as usual. Most of us have a clue, however, there is that taxing segment of society that is, well, dumber than a box of rocks.