[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed. Any PC running Win95 or better wasn't going to fail, but the way the media carried on we were going to fall back to a pre-industrial society, the sun would explode, cats sleeping with dogs etc.

Most of the fixes had to be done on mainframes, and all of it was done long before the date turned. There was a problem, it was fixed, media goes berzerk. Film at 11.

[identity profile] jim-lane.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"The World Ends At Sunset!"

Details at 11...

:-D