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...this happen? Who is responsible for the bug we call Y2K? Conventional wisdom goes something like this: back in the 1950s, when computers were the size of office cubicles and the most advanced data-storage system came on strips of punched cardboard, several scientists, including a Navy officer named Grace Murray Hopper, begat a standard programming language called COBOL (common business-oriented language). To save precious space on the 80-column punch cards, COBOL programmers used just six digits to render the day's date: two for the day, two for the month, two for the year...
...performance in his videotaped testimony, in which he seemed to remember or understand almost nothing relating to his own company. Asked a question about "the Windows box" (a common term for a computer running the Windows operating system), Gates feigned incomprehension: "The Windows box is a piece of cardboard...
Opening garbage bags taken from first-year dorms, libraries, upper-class houses and several administration buildings, the committee separated the trash into three categories: cardboard, paper and containers...
James Huth (age 8, brother of Phoebe, son of Professor Huth) had more complicated plans: "I'm gonna be a Velociraptor with wings, from the ad on TV with the mutant dinosaurs. Me and my family made it--it's actually some green clothes with spray paint and cardboard...
True evil vs. pathetic misbehavior: the Lewinsky coverage unfolds in a drearily gamy continuum; prime cuts and messy chitterlings from the abattoirs of Starr, Tripp & Drudge get mass-packaged in clingwrap and cardboard for the gaudy supermarkets of the information...