Category: 1999
The Millennium Bug
Excerpt from Time Magazines’ “The History and the Hype” Two digits. That’s all. Just two lousy digits. 1957, they should have written, not 57. 1970 rather than 70. Most important, 01-01-2000 would have been infinitely preferable to 01-01-00. Though most of the dire predictions connected with that date–the Year 2000…
The Millennium Bug
Excerpt from Time Magazines’ “The History and the Hype” Two digits. That’s all. Just two lousy digits. 1957, they should have written, not 57. 1970 rather than 70. Most important, 01-01-2000 would have been infinitely preferable to 01-01-00. Though most of the dire predictions connected with that date–the Year 2000…