Even as someone who was in high school at the time I have no doubt in what you said.
I believe that were indeed a lot of very serious issues, which if not fixed, would have resulted in a very different experience at the turn of the century.
But at the same time, I remember in about 1998 or 1999 my friend proudly professing that the new PC he bought was Y2K compliant. I'm pretty sure that all the software and PCs used by an average person for over 5 years was equally Y2K compliant making silly sticker on the box practically meaningless.
It was stuff like this which was blown out of proportion.
Your average consumer's hardware would be absolutely unaffected, but these consumers were nevertheless aggressively pulled into needlessly buying new PCs which were supposedly more Y2K compliant than their current ones.
I believe that were indeed a lot of very serious issues, which if not fixed, would have resulted in a very different experience at the turn of the century.
But at the same time, I remember in about 1998 or 1999 my friend proudly professing that the new PC he bought was Y2K compliant. I'm pretty sure that all the software and PCs used by an average person for over 5 years was equally Y2K compliant making silly sticker on the box practically meaningless.
It was stuff like this which was blown out of proportion.
Your average consumer's hardware would be absolutely unaffected, but these consumers were nevertheless aggressively pulled into needlessly buying new PCs which were supposedly more Y2K compliant than their current ones.