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The Resident

Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

By: NPR
  • Dec 29 2024
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Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out
Y2K seems like a joke now, but
In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small software glitch: Many older computer programs had coded dates using only two… [+7268 chars]

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