Comment on When Y2K happened were there people burning their passports and walking barefoot to Jerusalem or something along those lines?

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KaiReeve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Yeah, I understand that it was a legitimate issue for some industries, but at the social level people were saying that all of the world’s nuclear weapons would launch simultaneously and we would enter a post-nuclear apocalypse. At some point a legitimate issue was inflated into a doomsday hoax.

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