Word: bugging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
REVELERS No terror, no Y2K bug (so far), no champagne shortage. Same time next millennium...
...smiling through the 300-lb.-millet-bag jokes lobbed by your Y2complacent neighbors? Should you be angry, suing all the Engineer Littles who tricked you into believing the sky was falling? Or should you climb back inside, waiting for the systems shutdowns in February because of the leap-year bug...
...spewed new dotcoms at a record rate, there is simply not enough supply of these high-growth stocks out there to sate the demand of both the individuals and the institutions that want them. A slight curtailing of the new-issue pipeline, mandated by regulators as a pre-Y2K bug precaution, caused the few Business-to-Business plays out there, like VerticalNet, to soar. Stocks trade as a function of supply and demand, and right now every dotcom is Pokemon at Christmas--only in the case of stocks, the shortage won't be fixed anytime soon...
...Prohibition 8.16% 2. Programming decision that led to the Y2K bug 8.06% 2. Geraldo's opening Al Capone's vault...