Word: millennia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer is that probably nothing will happen. Computer difficulties aside, New Year's Eve 2000 will be just another day. As Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner points out, "If the universe is 15 billion years old, that's a million millennia. What's the big deal?" The danger in our societal emphasis on the coming millennium is that as we spend so much time measuring and acknowledging the passage of time, we begin to ignore what it is we're doing in that time...
...from their historical homeland and marched into the deserts of Syria, where they were beaten, raped, starved, tortured and murdered according to the systematic plans of the Young Turk government. The remainder fled mainly to Russia, the Middle East and America. Armenians, who had inhabited the Anatolian plateau for millennia, who had been the first nation to accept Christianity as a state religion, who had contributed so much to the development of scholarly thought and culture even as second-class citizens within the Ottoman Empire, were thus slaughtered at the hands of their supposed protectors in the name of Turkish...
...MILLENNIA'S LEGACY FAMILY TREE ($49; Windows) is a favorite of many Mormons because it includes ready-made templates for Church of the Latter-day Saints documentation. (The software has plenty of non-Mormon admirers as well.) If you have an Apple computer, consider the no-frills, straightforward interface offered by Reunion from Leister Productions...
...really, kids, when it comes down to it, why buck the system which has spawned two millennia of the greatest civilization ever known to humankind? I never said I wasn't a hypocrite. Homo Sapiens never had it as good as they do at this very moment. Party because it is 1999, man! so what if our souls are empty and life is just about making the next buck? Sham, spam. The show's just getting started...
...have but one nit to pick with Micron. A few months ago, I had occasion to call the 24-hour toll-free support line on behalf of my older Millennia. The machine came with Windows 95; naturally, I updated to Windows 98 as soon as I could. But now the Micron help guy said he wasn't allowed to support it--the machine had been "altered." This is a hugely cheesy way to treat customers. Still, even if you plan on altering it, a Millennia Max, with a 450-MHz Pentium II chip that's even faster than mine...