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What a letdown. People were hunkering in bomb shelters, stocking up on canned food and cleaning out gun shops, but for what? When Jan. 1, 2000 rolled around, there wasn't much destruction as a result of the dreaded Y2K computer bug. A few minor glitches popped up here and there, like people in New York and Nebraska being charged over $90,000 for turning in rented videos late or the New York Times' automated phone system telling people that it was the Jan. 3, 1900 issue of the paper. Ironically, the homepage of the self-proclaimed "inventor...
While many now decry the media hype and billions of dollars spent on the Y2K bug when no major consequences have occurred, the early efforts were what prevented serious problems from occuring. We must remember that the precautions taken by government and industry enable us to sit here and complacently take everything for granted. So while the wood stoves slowly trickle back to the shelves of Home Depot and Sears, be thankful that you don't have to eat Vienna Sausages for dinner tonight...
However, such prescience was not to be. And so the world spent an estimated $600 billion to squash the bug that our great nation unleashed through its own programming ineptitude...
...disappointment of survivalists, millenialists, and journalists everywhere, the much-hyped Y2K bug failed to bring about the end of civilization. At the very least, weren't all those third-world markets still running on old TRS-80s supposed to drag our shiny new mainframes down with them? Apparently not. Having barricaded ourselves in our bunkers with nothing but a pile of gold krugerrands and a mating pair of hamsters, we now find ourselves asking, didn't any computers, anywhere, crash on the morning of January...
...Prohibition 8.16% 2. Programming decision that led to the Y2K bug 8.06% 2. Geraldo's opening Al Capone's vault...