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from WIRED Media/News Company
Dec. 31, 1999: Horror or Hype? Y2K Arrives and World Trembles
1999: The world braces for chaos as midnight approaches. Will computer systems crash when the calendar switches over to 2000? Y2K fears were real enough to make governments around the world take remedial action before the event, which had the unintended benefit of actually strengthening the existing computer infrastructure. Systems were upgraded or, when they couldn’t be replaced, were given additional backup. Billions of dollars were spent fixing the original source code in older computers. If the threat was real — and there are still plenty of people around who say it was — then the precautions paid off. If Y2K was a form of mass paranoia — and plenty of people believe that, too — then a lot of money was wasted. As for the midnight switchover itself, 1999 passed into history with barely a whimper.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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