I was only a teenager at the time, but even then I thought that surely smart people had been looking at this issue and coming up with solutions before Y2K was going to happen

I never understood the media hysteria, but now that I’m older I see the general media is clueless when it comes to tech so that’s probably why the ‘panic’ (and of course they can always find some ‘expert’ to claim that doomsday is coming!)