- It would be double zero. And the belief was that computers would think the year was 1900. And then they would just immediately, I guess, realize they had not yet been invented. I don't know. The idea was that there was this potential tragedy that was going to happen on January 1st of the year 2000. Of course, that didn't happen. So now we look back on that as sort of one of two ways, which is either a proof that there was never a risk and that this was all imagined or there's a subset of people who are like, actually, that is sort of science at its best. We actually stopped this disaster from happening. All the things we did to combat Y2K during the year of 1999 actually succeeded. But these are retroactive beliefs. What was interesting to me was to go back and see what people were saying at the time. What were people saying in October 1999 about Y2K? Now, you mentioned earlier how how do you sort of, you know, kind of separate the feeling of these things from what happened? In a (16/57)
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