“1999 was a banner year for social and pop culture WTF-ery — from virtual pets and baggy clothing to Woodstock ’99 and Total Request Live — and the pot of golden chaos waiting at the end of that computer-generated rainbow was the hypothetical civilization-crushing threat of Y2K.
“The once ever-present topic immediately turned into a sour punchline by the afternoon of January 1, 2000, and spent the past 25 years as a quaint, increasingly forgettable cautionary tale about fear-mongering media. Until now… or then? Until now-then, now.”
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