Thing about the Y2k bug is that while it was a real problem, and potentially very serious. We were already well aware of said problem, and been doing all that hard work for years by the time that the media took notice, the mass panics took hold, the conspiracy theories started propagating, and the cults and militia groups started to use it to recruit. So its both an example of the way this sort of miscalculation in essential systems creates massive risk, and the cooperative undertaking needed to prevent that. And an example of unwarranted scare mongering and public crazies. By New Years Eve 1999 there was very little reason for people to be hunkered in bunkers waiting for planes to fall out of the sky, and there was no reason for the media to be SHOCKED and relieved that not much had happened.
Oh an probably also a good example of profiteering off bullshit. I remember crap like y2k ready golf clubs.
