Consider Y2K.
Y2K was, in the waning weeks of 1999, a thing. A big thing. It referred to the fear that computer systems around the world, many of which used two-digit numbers to represent a year (such as “99” to represent the year 1999), would crash on Jan. 1, 2000 — because the systems, in going from “99” to “00,” would recognize “00” as the year 1900, not 2000. And because everything important in our world is run by computers — banks, water distribution, nuclear launch codes — there could be global chaos if the
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