Ninety-Nine: Y2K

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Written By Jamie Fenderson

In the 3rd episode of 9 weeks of 99, the guys remember Y2K. The term was used to describe the paranoia leading up to the new year, when people were worried that computers would not be able to handle the change in date. Would airplanes fall from the sky, the stock market crash, and society fall into mass chaos? We now know what happened, but we didn’t know then.

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Jamie Fenderson

Independent web publisher, blogger, podcaster… creator of digital worlds. Analyst, designer, storyteller… proud polymath and doer of things. Founder and producer of “the80sand90s.com” and gag-man co-host of the “The 80s and 90s Uncensored” podcast.

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