Y2K

I recently watched a documentary about the Y2K bug and the mass hysteria surrounding it.  And it was fascinating for all sorts of reasons.  It wasn't so much a documentary as a compilation of news footage and recordings from the time.  So there was certainly a degree of nostalgia from seeing this snapshot in time.  Even though these events only took place 25 years ago, within my adult lifetime, the footage made it seem like a lot longer ago - from the fashion and the hairstyles, to how computers looked like then.  And it's mind-blowing how much technology has evolved from then until now.  I certainly remember the dire predictions about the Y2K bug and how it could destroy modern society - but at the time I think I viewed it more with curiosity rather than concern.  I don't think the documentary really answered the question about whether the Y2K bug was a real issue, or whether it was a whole bunch of nothing.  Companies spent a lot of time and money "fixing" the issue - but just how much of a difference that really made I don't know.  For sure, there was a lot of scaremongering - fake news was still a thing 25 years ago.  And it was the little historical tidbits scattered throughout the film that I particularly liked - from Putin taking power, to the terrorist threat posed by Osama bin Laden, to the rise of extremism within the US.  However, it feels like they missed an opportunity in not following up with some of the more extreme doom-mongers and survivalists to see how stupid they looked in the new millennium.