In 1999, the world was preparing for a technological apocalypse.

How could the omission of two simple digits affect the destiny of all humankind?

Y2K, What does it mean?

Around the globe, the computers running banks, power grids, airplanes, and entire governments

were built on the simple assumption that years would always begin with 19.

As the year 2000 approach, there was a growing fear that computers might misread the date

as 1900, a tiny glitch with potentially catastrophic

consequences.

We also must be ready for the 21st century from its very first moment by solving the so-called

Y2K computer problem.

Now this is not one of the summer movies where you can close your eyes during the scary

parks. Y2K's worst case scenarios were painted as apocalyptic, planes falling from the sky,

financial records vanishing, nuclear bombs launching by mistake. For some, the fear was nothing

less than total pandemonium. Many retailers are playing on Y2K fears.

A simple sign meant a 40% increase in sales for this Colorado gun shop.

In Las Vegas, sales of gas masks are high and propane tanks are sold out.

Despite years of mounting hysteria, the turn of the century ultimately came and went without much drama.

But the mere possibility of a global collapse triggered by a minor glitch revealed just how deeply

humanity had merged itself with technology and how little we truly understood what we had become.

While Y2K failed to transform the world in 1999, another transformation that year did.

It happened three months earlier in September of 99, when Toma Bangalter and Guill de

Oman Cristo, known together as Daft Punk, were hard at work inside a Paris recording studio.

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