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History of the Y2K Bug
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Before the panic around the 2020 pandemic caused massive runs on toilet paper (no pun intended!), the late-90's fear around the turn of the millenium caused mass-hysteria to grip the United States and beyond. Known as the Year 2000 Bug, the Y2K Bug, or simply Y2K, this simple oversight in software design sparked media-fuelled panic across the nation as millions feared mass-power outages, the collapse of the country, and worse...
Join us this week as we look at what the Y2K bug is, efforts to remediate the issue, how that remediation was portrayed by the media, and what a the fallout was once the calendar finally rolled over to 01/01/(20)00.
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Intro/outro music: "Crunk Knight" by Kevin MacLeod
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