Sure. Beans and ammo were really popular among IT dudes like me who understood the kind of shit-storm that was brewing and was narrowly averted. Silver dollars were also popular, and I still have mine stacked up somewhere.
Now it’s vanished down the memory hole except for occasional cameo appearances as an example of why you shouldn’t pay attention to alarmists.
I drew a different lesson from the experience: not all dire predictions are self-fulfilling. Some are self-negating, and they look exactly like that one. I fondly hope all today’s doomsday alarmism also turns out to be this “unfounded”.
...have you been around (as an intertubes-reading creature) in 1999? Beans and ammo were REALLY popular then. Among a certain kind of crowd, that is.
Sure. Beans and ammo were really popular among IT dudes like me who understood the kind of shit-storm that was brewing and was narrowly averted. Silver dollars were also popular, and I still have mine stacked up somewhere.
Now it’s vanished down the memory hole except for occasional cameo appearances as an example of why you shouldn’t pay attention to alarmists.
I drew a different lesson from the experience: not all dire predictions are self-fulfilling. Some are self-negating, and they look exactly like that one. I fondly hope all today’s doomsday alarmism also turns out to be this “unfounded”.