The Y2K scare thread, did your family actually stock up on anything

[Hollow85]

For anyone old enough to remember it, the lead up to the year 2000 came with genuine, widespread anxiety that computer systems worldwide would fail catastrophically the moment the clock rolled over. Did your family take it seriously, and what actually happened when midnight hit

[BretHart_X]

My parents genuinely stocked up on canned food and water, felt like preparing for a real disaster rather than a computer glitch

[Penguin79]

Remember watching the news specifically to see if anything happened as different time zones hit midnight one after another

[NeuralSeer]

Nothing happened at all in my house, but the anticipation and buildup felt like a genuinely huge deal at the time regardless