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The Year Two Thousand Ends, Quietly, For The Second TimeDECEMBER 31, 2000 · 18:17
At 23:59 on December 31 the world's computers declined to end the year again, and a great many people who had spent the summer of 1999 preparing for the previous attempt went to bed unconvinced. It is now the third consecutive new year in the modern era to pass without incident, which makes it less remarkable and not more.
THE NEW YEAR ARRIVING, OR NOT.
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THE NEW YEAR ARRIVING, OR NOT.
LONDON, December 31 -- The year 2000 ends without incident, as it began, having consumed somewhere between two and forty billion dollars of computer-related spending in total failure to notice that nothing happened.
Historians of the period note that the year 2000 is not the first year to end and will not be the last, but that the twenty-first has not yet started, a fact which several thousand computer systems still refuse to acknowledge and which one bank in this city demonstrated in February by issuing a cheque dated the 29th.
Corrections: none so far. Published items are never corrected, they are replaced,
and the replacement keeps the original in the archive, where nobody will look for it.
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AuntMargeReadsThePaperLoudly
Joined: Oct 2001 · Posts: 820
· Akron, OH · 2 minutes later
my dial-up is screaming and i am not sorry
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DisappointedByEveryone
Joined: Apr 2004 · Posts: 76
· wet · an hour later
this is the same thing that happened with the falklands and with the gulf and we were fine, and then we were fine the other time too, so we will be fine
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Hippie586
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· Eugene, OR · same afternoon
does anyone else find it completely unhinged that this is on the internet. we put a man on the moon. we can put THIS on the internet.
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KingOfTheNerds
Joined: Aug 2000 · Posts: 2210
· his mother's basement · that evening
KingOfTheNerds wrote:
i have been on since 1995 and i can tell you exactly what this is worth: nothing. this thread has more comments than the article has paragraphs. that is the internet in one sentence.
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OldAndBald
Joined: Jan 1999 · Posts: 6677
· a recliner · the next morning
OldAndBald wrote:
The Year Two Thousand Ends, Quietly, For The Second Time i have been on since 1995 and i can tell you exactly what this is worth: nothing.
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internetwasbetter
Joined: Jul 2002 · Posts: 2440
· a modem · the following day
House rules, posted since the beginning and enforced by one person:
be the kind of commenter who would be tolerable in person. do not correct people's grammar
unless it is fun. no fonts larger than 11 pixels. this is not a newspaper. it is a
website.
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