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It was on December 31st, 1999, New Year's Eve.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, when my dad suddenly and unexpectedly came to the conclusion

that our family was woefully unprepared for Y2K.

Anyone who's listening, who's old enough to remember, might recall the wave of anxiety

that swept over the world as we approached the new millennium.

Much had been made about the so-called Y2K bug, a glitch that involved the internal clocks of our millennial computers.

Back then, many computer systems represented four year dates, like 1999, with just the final two digits.

99.

When the clock rolled over to the year 2000, those faulty odometers would simply read 00,

making the year 2000 indistinguishable from the year 1900 to our helplessly befuddled machines.

Now, the Y2K bug was a real thing, but it was also a very fixable thing.

Many computer systems were adjusted well ahead of the apocalyptic date,

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