Ctrl+Alt+Panic

As the clock ticked toward January 1, 2000, the world braced for digital doomsday. In this episode, we dial up the panic and log into the infamous Y2K scare—the moment when a two-digit date threatened to crash computers, cripple banks, and maybe even send toasters into rebellion. Was it a legit technological time bomb or the biggest system overclock of fear in modern history? We break down why programmers were bugging out, why governments were spending billions to debug the future, and how survivalists stockpiled everything short of Windows 98 install discs. Then, when the clock finally struck midnight… nothing happened. Talk about an anti-climactic byte!