Y2K: Ctrl+Alt+Disappoint
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Everyone braced for digital doom at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000—but instead of chaos, we got... nothing. In this episode, we revisit the Y2K bug, the global panic it sparked, and the anticlimactic quiet that followed. Was the hype overblown, or did we narrowly avoid disaster thanks to behind-the-scenes heroes? Let’s unpack the world’s most boring apocalypse.
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