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Category: Nostalgia

“Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting:” An Oral History of Y2K

Post author By Robert Crouch
Post date March 23, 2020

Once upon a time, we all thought the world was going to end on January 1, 2000. Two decades after the panic of the century, it’s time to finally hear from the people who spent years—and billions of dollars—making sure it didn’t.

Tags Y2K

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