'...the Y2K bug was expected to bring civilization to an ignominious end.'

And it did not.  And if Neville Chamberlain had taken more appropriate measures, similar to the ones we took in the late 90's, he may well have seen some form of peace in his time beyond the few months he did.

Software developers did make a lot of money, but no planes fell from the sky.

(And NASA did not spend 80 gazillion dollars developing a space pen while the Russians took a pencil.  But it is a good joke if you weren't following Apollo 1.)