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Y2K becomes reality as biggest IT outage in history strikes a society that has become too reliant on computers

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Y2K predictions come true 24 years later as our over-reliance on computers backfires in biggest IT outage in history

If you were around in 1999, you probably remember all the panic about Y2K. Because the computer systems at the time largely used only the last two digits of years, the concern was switching from 1999 to 2000 would result in a year reading of 00, which might be interpreted by some systems as 1900 […]