>>21695433Y2k was very funny if you understood the issue and knew it wouldn't be a problem. Internet connected home PCs were still fairly new to the majority of the population at the time. Ignorance fueled hysteria lead to such ideas as passenger jets falling out of the sky when the clock struck midnight.
September 11th didn't seem like such a significant thing to 18 year old me at the time. I didn't think it would change government operations so drastically.