Y2K Conspiracy

Y2K was a major scandal that broke out towards the starting of a new millennium of what was going to happen. It all started with just a small little bug in computer devices, that could have major and dangerous consequences. With the new era of advanced technology, there was a variety of new devices such as computers, the new usage of mobile cell phones and even brand new concept and mechanisms of video games. This lead to many new worlds becoming reliant on new forms of operating systems to run their country. All these new gadgets were important because like today people started to become more susceptible to these and depend on them through their daily life. This bug wasn't just known since the end of the 1990s but recognized since the beginning of the computer age, programmers saw this problem and knew it would become a big deal and ignored it. They did this because many saw this new technology as not going to last or going to be replaced with something better since they knew there were new and more efficient ways for the future but this become bigger as we approached the end of the 1990s. 


               Y2K was a computer bug that didn't allow the proper year. Since computers were a program to tell time according to the final two digits (so in the year 1975 the computer would recognize it as 75) when the year 2000 came many fear that the computer would see this date and confuse it for 1900 and become overrun with errors and completely shut down. All technology would just collapse and turn off at 12 am January 1, 2000. This leads a full on panic by many individuals that drove them to prepare for what was seen as the end of the world or an apocalypse because of how bad things could get with no light or electricity running and keeping the nation flourishing. Many states and countries spend over millions of dollars in preparation for this disaster that was to come but never came. And many people took precautions as well going as far as to buying new homes in the desert, buying gas power generators, and buying a year long food supplies they are could “survive the disaster.”
             If the Y2K disaster was to happen there would be many failures economy that could affect the US nation. This included power plants dealing and handling of nuclear energy (controlling energy/electricity so it's not released ), radiation(so it's not exposed to the environment of people causing mutations), and water pressure (that handled dams blocking off water). Also, consequences such as hardware and software problems were hardware problems included those of machinery and controlling the machines used in factories and facilities. Software problems include telling programs what to do. As many tried and tried, failure after failure people tried to find the missing component or the solution to this problem time was running out and when companies announce new solutions, people still fear the event happening.
            Once the clock struck midnight, in the end, there was nothing to fear the bug was later seen as just a big over exaggerated hoax and many believe in it. Many who were unprepared either were relieved or laugh at those who believed. As for the ones who prepared for Y2K many weren't sorry for it at all. More like “Better safe than sorry” attitude arose from those who were scared and worried about this traumatizing situation.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/Y2K-bug
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/Y2K-bug/
http://www.vpcalendar.net/the-y2k-disaster-that-never-was.html