What you're saying here is that there was no crisis. The fact that people worked on date issues for a decade does not mean the public scare campaign in the lat

What you're saying here is that there was no crisis. The fact that people worked on date issues for a decade does not mean the public scare campaign in the late 90s was justified. You could equally claim airplanes would crash if they weren't refuelled, or people would die if garbage wasn't collected. In those cases, the media is educated enough to know the claims are pointless. In the case of y2k, they had little understanding of how enterprise IT worked, and lots of businesses who were happy to encourage that ignorance.