What was the most hyped up diasaster that never happened?

[warmodder]

dakatana or how ever it was spelled. The game was waaaay over hyped.

 

[apac]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Iraq's WMDs yet.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: warmodder
dakatana or how ever it was spelled. The game was waaaay over hyped.

That's a disaster that did happen. It helps to read the thread title.

 

[skace]

We actually saw some issues from applications that didn't have proper Y2K support. It may have been overhyped as a disaster, in terms of people who hid in their basement with canned goods and bottled water, but from an application/technology perspective, it was obviously a legitimate issue.

 

[warmodder]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: warmodder
dakatana or how ever it was spelled. The game was waaaay over hyped.

That's a disaster that did happen. It helps to read the thread title.

ooops event != disaster. My bad. Y2k bug gets my vote than.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
I am going to go with the Three Mile Island incident for the US. If you survey the average person about nuclear disasters they will often put Three Mile Island right after Chernobyl..yet it was not a significant disaster. I consider it major since it has very heavily influences the US nuclear policy for decades now.

That's a good one, and interesting in that much of the hype was AFTER the "disaster."

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: BigJ
Mutual Assured Destruction during the Cold War?

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of too. My neighbor in my old neighborhood still has a bomb shelter in his back yard he put in during the 80's because he was so sure the end was near. In '87 when the Berlin Wall fell it pretty much wiped our fears away.

From our current perspective, the concept of MAD seems like it was overblown, but during, say, the Cuban missile crisis, it was a very real fear, and a very real possibility. It's a damned good thing for humanity that nuclear war has so far not come to pass.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: DVad3r
I think the most hyped up diasaster was the Y2K bug that was supposed to cripple the worlds computers. I don't think I have heard or read about 1 computer that has died or the world being severly affected as a result of this. I remember places charging 50 bucks to Y2K proof your computer, god what a money making scheme that was.

The only reason Y2K was a non-issue is BECAUSE of the billions of dollars that were spent to prevent it.

But there was a lot of silly crap done that wasted lots of your tax dollars. For example GSA set up emergency trailers in the courtyard of the central office building in DC "just in case". The funny thing is who the hell would miss GSA or a myriad of other government agencies that wasted money on crap like this if the worst did happen and they went offline for a few weeks?

 

[jjones]

Pats winning Superbowl XLII.

 

[jonessoda]

So far, Y2K. There were people saying it would be the end of civilization as we know it, nuclear missiles detonating in their silos, aircraft falling out of the sky, things blowing up, all because some computers ticked over wrong. I'm guessing the 2012 is going to be an even bigger "any second now... any second now, the world's going to end, come on..." moment.

 

[OutHouse]

flu pandemic 2 years ago.

 

[K1052]

FuseTalk being used on more message boards.

 

[Tiamat]

y2k

 

[jfall]

SARS, Bird Flu, Y2K

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: Citrix
flu pandemic 2 years ago.

Yep, Bird Flu ftw.

 

[Pabster]

It's a tie between Y2K and Bird Flu.

But Global Scamming is right behind it.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: mariok2006
Doesn't the Mayan calendar say the world will end in 2012 or something like that? I gotta go stock up on supplies man...

They just didn't make their calendar long enough.

 

[thraashman]

WWIII with Russia
Y2K
Guiliani becoming President
Anthrax attacks (yeah like 7 happened and then nothing)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Zombie apocalypse

 

[amdhunter]

NINE ELEVEN.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: invidia
The Second Coming of Jesus

crazy canucks

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
I am going to go with the Three Mile Island incident for the US. If you survey the average person about nuclear disasters they will often put Three Mile Island right after Chernobyl..yet it was not a significant disaster. I consider it major since it has very heavily influences the US nuclear policy for decades now.

You better read up on what ALMOST happened there. That was more luck than over-hype.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: K1052
FuseTalk being used on more message boards.

sometimes I wake up screaming in the middle of the night at that thought

 

[DVad3r]

2012 certainly seems like a date for doomsday, there are actually alot of videos about it and apperently it has been predicted by 3 prophets. I think the world might end in some 4 billion years or so when our sun expands/collapses and dies off. I wonder what planet we will be residing on then.

Haha Daikantana, that game was a joke, and why is John Romero one of the most respected people in the game industry again?

 

[lokiju]

Y2k easy.

 

[biggestmuff]

Hype: To publicize or promote, especially by extravagant, inflated, or misleading claims.


Y2K wasn't hyped. It took lots of work to mitigate. Some systems would have been severely crippled if they were left uncorrected.

The most hyped event would have been that anthrax incident were lots of people in the DC area began purchasing rolls of plastic and duct tape to seal their windows.