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[–] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best counter point is y2k.
Huge publicity. Massive amounts of money spent.
New year 1999/2000 was uneventful (except for parties).
..... Y2k was a hoax, waste of money.... Wut?!

It wasn't. There's is proof of such. It was removed/mitigated by a huge effort of developers.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

"We spent millions of dollars and a year preparing and NOTHING HAPPENED! All that time and money wasted!"