Y2K

Paul Gillin makes the first printed reference to the Y2K problem in Computerworld magazine in February 1984. The belief is that the use of the last two digits of a year value by old computer programs will lead to worldwide disruptions on January 1, 2000. From 1993 to 1999, governments and businesses worldwide spend somewhere between $300 billion and $900 billion fixing Y2K bugs.
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