y2k
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1999 Was The Last Time Everything Was Fine
When I moved to New York City after college in 1999, it felt like anything was possible. But things were about to change more quickly than anyone knew.
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In Case You Haven’t Noticed, 2016 Is Basically The ’90s
Everything comes full circle.
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’90s Pop Culture References Your Kids Will Never Understand
Kids today will never know the struggle of having monthly hour limits on your internet.
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Why The ’90s Was A Horrible Decade And Your Nostalgia Is Clouding Your Judgment
Take off your rose-colored glasses and take a hard look at the ’90s.
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24 Things You Remember From Early 2000’s DeviantART
An ode to the Web 1.0 kitsch that you loved.
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Relive Your Y2K Freakout In 19 Steps
New Year’s Eve, 1999: You embrace for the impending demise of civilization. Or just nothing.
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Y2K 2.0: How A Second Brought Down Half The Internets
The “leap second” was a one second adjustment made to the atomic clock tonight at 23:59:59 UT (just before 8pm ET). After it went into effect tonight, half the internet — including Reddit, FourSquare, Yelp, LinkedIn, Gawker StumbleUpon, and more — came crashing down. The outages were mostly (thankfully) brief. Here’s how it happened.
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20 Of The Worst Opinions Ever
The Week magazine’s Bad Opinion Generator gives you a taste of what the world would be like if cool people did not exist.
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Best Y2K Scare Videos
Ten years ago, the end of the world was upon us, and people like Captain Spock and Jesus (see below) warned us of the dangers of the Y2K bug, the millenial threat that would make our ATMs explode or whatever!!! Watch Video ›
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Y2K12?
Is 2012 the next Y2K? The Mayan calendars say so.