I was going to say the same. Funny it gets written off today as a hoax when tons of people had to fix slews of bugs. It could've been bad, but fortunately the worst I heard about was some people getting stuck in some elevators.
Hey, the 486 I used for typing up school papers (and playing Civilization and Master of Magic) got wicked confused. I fixed the issue by telling it not to worry, it was still 1986.
That may be true, but most of the other examples are hoaxes. It woupd be like if I said "famous crimes: murder, genocide, jaywalking". It's a false equivalence by expectation of similarity.
It was kinda a hoax. Not the problem itself, it did exist, but everything in 1999 was "y2k compliant". Especially things that couldn't be affected by the issue (like toasters and what have you).
Interesting, though I feel like this would have been better mapped chronologically versus alphabetically. Just to get an idea of when these things actually happened. It’s not information I need handy that I’d ever have to look it up alphabetically. It’d be more interesting to see how panics might’ve changed over time.