The world was due to end on January 1, 2000 and 2013

1. 200026th anniversary
   Doomsday · busted

   'Scary Gary' Says Y2K Will Wipe Out Every Western Government; Governments Report for Work Jan. 3

   Newsletter writer Gary North called 2000 'The Year the Earth Stands Still'. At midnight, the Earth kept going.

   Y2K: 'The Year the Earth Stands Still' · Gary North (newsletter writer, garynorth.com)

   The deadline arrived on time. The apocalypse did not.

2. 200026th anniversary
   Doomsday · busted

   Falwell Preached That God 'May Be Preparing' to Jam Communications on January 1, 2000. The Phones Worked

   In an August 1998 sermon he said 'January 1, 2000, will be a fateful day in the history of the world,' and that God may 'jam our communications' and judge us.

   Falwell: January 1, 2000 a 'Fateful Day in the History of the World' · Jerry Falwell (televangelist, Old Time Gospel Hour, Lynchburg, Virginia)

   Earth attended anyway.

3. 200026th anniversary
   Doomsday · busted

   Computerworld, 1993: Y2K 'More Devastating Than a Car Crash.' January 1, 2000 Was Mostly a Slow News Day

   Peter de Jager's 'Doomsday 2000' warned of 'an event more devastating than a car crash'. The fixing that followed was real and expensive; the doomsday was not.

   Doomsday 2000 · Peter de Jager (Canadian computer consultant; 'Doomsday 2000', Computerworld)

   Said Sep 6, 1993: 6 years, 3 months, 26 days before this date.

   The sun came up the next morning, rudely unbothered.

4. 200026th anniversary
   Doom window opened · busted

   Gary North, 1998: Y2K 'Cannot Possibly Be Fixed' and Will 'Wipe Out Every National Government in the West'

   The most prolific Y2K doomsayer told readers the federal government would 'go under' and the US would break up like the USSR. He called it 'our deliverance.'

   Y2K Wipes Out Every National Government in the West · Gary North (economist, newsletter writer and Y2K website publisher)

   Anniversary tip: the traditional gift is a new calendar.

5. 200026th anniversary
   Doomsday · busted

   Michael Hyatt's 1998 Book The Millennium Bug: 'The Illusion of Social Stability Is About to Be Shattered'

   The book's covers promised grounded planes, failed bank vaults, missing tax records and long blackouts, 'and nothing can stop it.' Midnight came; the lights stayed on.

   Y2K Grounds the World's Planes and Brings 'Massive, Long-Term Power Failures' · Michael S. Hyatt (author, The Millennium Bug: How to Survive the Coming Chaos, 1998)

   It comes around every year, and every year the world is still here to see it.

6. 200026th anniversary
   Doomsday · busted

   James Howard Kunstler, April 1999: 'Systems Will Fail, Crash, Seize Up.' Y2K 'Is Going to Rock Our World'

   The Geography of Nowhere author wrote a long personal statement predicting interlocking system failures, lost livelihoods and hardship from January 2000.

   Y2K Is Going to Rock Our World · James Howard Kunstler (author and social critic)

   A proud date in the long history of things not happening.

7. 200026th anniversary
   Doomsday · busted

   DC Y2K Weather Report, 1999: 'The Best Possible Case for Which There Is Any Hope Is Another Great Depression'

   Mainframe programmer Cory Hamasaki's paid Y2K newsletter promised certain system failure, with outcomes ranging from 'Mad Max' to 'Little House on the Prairie.'

   Y2K: 'The Systems Will Break, This Is a Certainty' · Cory Hamasaki's DC Y2K Weather Report (Hamasaki and contributors)

   The planet, as usual, did not get the memo.

8. 201313th anniversary
   Doomsday · busted

   Porter Stansberry, 2010: Sending Assets Overseas Will Be 'Against the Law' by January 2013

   The newsletter publisher behind the viral 'End of America' video told readers they had two years to get their money out before it was 'trapped in the States.'

   Americans Barred From Moving Money Abroad by January 2013 · Porter Stansberry (founder, Stansberry & Associates Investment Research)

   Said Dec 24, 2010: 2 years, 8 days before this date.

   Observe a moment of not ending, in solidarity.

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