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Year 2000

Abbreviated as Y2k, the Year 2000 was a reported issue for IBM compatible computers using the 2-digit date stamp. This was originally done to save code space, programmers created the dates to be represented by two digits such as 79 for 1979. When these computers roll over to 2000, the computer would interpret 2000 as 00, causing the computer to think it was 1900. Several million dollars were spent on government and business computers upgrading the code and the hardware to accept the year 2000. On January 1, 2000, no significant issues occurred being a success for some people and thought of as a hoax by others.

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