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A brief history of the Y2K panic

Posted by / May 10, 2018

There was a ton of excitement leading up the new millennium, lots of people planned to (dare we say it) party like it’s 1999. But there was a darker side to the millennium, aside from the parties and the fun and the excitement. This was the Y2K scare, the fear that computers all over the world would go haywire causing planes to fall out of the sky, nuclear weapons to spontaneously launch, electricity grids to go out, and all sorts of chaos. This video brings you back to that time.

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