How did you prepare for Y2K? For more Dispatches From The Middle, subscribe: Do you remember how you prepared for Y2K? Buying generators and gas, stocking up on canned food and bottled water, taking as much cash out of the ATM as it would allow? Or maybe your main focus in 1999 was just finding a fancy bottle of champagne to ring in the new millennium, and the Y2K fears didn't cross your mind.
Whether you went into doomsday mode or not, there's no argument that the country as a whole spent a whole lot of time and resources preparing for Y2K.
It's easy to laugh at now, 20 years later, but the threat back then felt very real. In fact, if you tried to explain it to someone under the age of 25, they'd probably think you were joking.
With that in mind, we dug into our archives for a heavy dose of Y2K nostalgia and talked with WGAL Anchor Susan Shapiro, who covered the "Year 2000 Conversion" as it was happening, way back in 1999.
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