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I contributed a short essay to Newsweek's 2010 project for the Overblown Fears list: Y2K.
Despite the media hype, the biggest story about the Y2K computer bug is that nothing happened. Trains didn't spontaneously derail. McDonald's didn't roll back to turn-of-the-century pricing (no Happy Meals for a ha'penny). And the banks didn't lose all of our money; we'd have to wait another eight years for that.
Farhad Manjoo recently did a 2-part piece on the lessons of Y2K for Slate.
On the site for his new novel, The End As I Know It, Kevin Shay is blogging pre-Y2K internet postings. "On This Day Pre-Y2K is updated daily with one or more verbatim quotations drawn from a variety of online sources, from today's date, eight years ago." One of my favorite posts describes "the great geek exodus from the cities late next year".
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