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"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!"
– Peter Venkman, 'Ghostbusters' (1984)
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Had no idea the play the crucible was so similar to the actual story of Salem
Re: the Y2K bug. I'm old enough to remember it, and there absolutely were scare stories about how planes were going to drop out of the sky, there'd be weeks of power blackouts, triggering the plot of The Purge on a nightly basis, and even that the NORAD computers would flip out and do a War Games. Luckily the authorities managed to calm most people down and convince them that they had a handle on it. I think it'd be much harder to keep a lid on it nowadays, with social media and the fake news ecosystem.
My understanding of the reason it wasn't foreseen until quite late was that early programmers had used a two-digit date code to reduce demands on the simple hardware they had available, knowing that it was very unlikely that the machines they were writing it for would still be around decades later when it would actually matter. But their code code was used as the basis for later iterations of the programs and their short-cut kept getting recycled into new software until 1999 rolled around and people started to realise there was a problem.
The Pendle Witch trial is actually one of the most interesting, because amazingly, it's not 100% clear-cut. Alizon Device confessed without being tortured, because she was convinced she was guilty. Basically she got into an argument with the pedlar and cursed him when he wouldn't sell her pins, only for the the guy to suddenly have a stroke (presumably because of the stress of arguing with her), and she was convinced she'd accidentally done it by witchcraft and felt terrible. Meanwhile, one of the other women, 'Old Demdike' seems to have deliberately tried to frighten her neighbours into believing she was a witch for years so she could extort them for money in return for not cursing them. None of them deserved to be hanged, obviously, and the evidence used to convict them was completely insane, but the case was a bit more complex than just being mass hysteria.