What happened to Y2KNewsWire???

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Tried to get in for several days now - and nada!

-- Sheri (wncy2k@nccn.net), December 25, 1999

Answers

I got through last night, but they got rid of the old doomsday computer, that was my favorite thing, i guess they are getting cold feet about being wrong, seems like Gary North was the only one to realy stay the course to the end.

-- Waiting (Paddy@awaiting.cdc), December 25, 1999.

Gary North and Ed Yourdon and all of us!

-- Sheri (wncy2k@nccn.net), December 25, 1999.

They don't have "cold feet about being wrong." They just don't want to be blamed.

The NewsWire people have realized that being right about y2k might be far more dangerous than being wrong.

Human nature is deeply & profoundly strange.

-- can you blame them (for@laying.low), December 25, 1999.


Hmmmmmm,

I just spent some time perusing through the site without any problems. Maybe polly should've gotten a new 'puter for Christmas....

-- don (MRMTGMAN@AOL.COM), December 25, 1999.


They are scared of being wrong. Expect polly stories late next week. Will probably try to pretend they were pollies all along. Gary will stay true to the end, then admit he was wrong, then come up with another scare tactic. Ed Y bailed out months ago.

-- Butt Nugget (catsbutt@umailme.com), December 25, 1999.


Mike Adams is a marketer. As the owner of Arial Marketing, Adams used Y2K as a experiment of taking e-commerce and moving it into hot topic issues. Most industries do this(publishing is a good one) and milk whatever they can from the threat and then move on.

Y2KNewswire though has repeatedly gone through changes in 1999 to fit the climate. In late 1998 the site was basically a cut/paste of articles/technical aspects of Y2K. He at that point was selling survival goods at Y2KSupply as well.

The climate shifted to more of a paranoia base and this reflected the mood of his articles. Soon he was doing articles on massive government coverups in not just Y2K but other popular topics.

In the summer when the Y2K survival industry took a dive down, Adams began to distance himself and then was completely out of the goods business. Many speculate that Adams used his leftover inventory for the Y2KNewswire membership drive($99) where he gave out a few hundred dollars in food, ect.

Now Adams is slowly changing his site to point to others in the future that he did change his mood on Y2K. He made a good living this year off selling fear but Im not judging him since we live in a free market society and he has the right to sell to whatever nitch that he sees not being catered too.

As a marketer Mike Adams is a success story. Wether or not Adams believed what he wrote is a whole nother discussion.

No denying it though, his predictions for the new year make even some of the pollies look like Gary North. If one power outage last 6 hours, according to him, then Y2KNewswire is right on everything.

-- Village Idiot (merry@christmas.com), December 25, 1999.


We live in perlious times and being prepared can not be wrong. Don't look back and blame anyone for the past , but live for the future and be thankful that someone took the time to warn us of what is coming. If it is not Y2K , it will be some other worse calamity.

-- Paul R. Spooner (pspooner@ocis.net), December 25, 1999.

Upon reading that silly list from Adams, I was just floored.

Almost every item on that list happens SOMEWHERE IN THE US IN A TYPICAL YEAR!

He just said that if 2000 is just average - he wins!

Now frankly, that sucks in a major way.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), December 25, 1999.


Paul Davis: Well, YOU suck in a major way, you frigging pus bag.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 25, 1999.

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