Sensationalists believed that on January 1, 2000, all technology would fail, because nothing had been programmed to go past the year 1999. It was predicted that water, electricity, and telephone systems would fail, aircrafts would crash, nuclear plants would meltdown, and all normal life would come to a cataclysmic halt. Many people and religious groups hold beliefs of the world ending in mass destruction, and these predictions played on their beliefs and fears. However, January 1, 2000 passed with very little disturbance. There were some cases of certain technology displaying the year 1900 instead of 2000, but otherwise, life continued normally. It could be suggested that people play on others fears in this way to make money. Many countries,
