sense, you can't. But what I was hoping to do is that by kind of sticking to what seemed like straightforward information from the time that the texture that once existed could be sort of recreated, that it wasn't a new kind of understanding of the 90s, but an accurate one. Yeah. So many thoughts about that. One, obviously, I'm reminded. I mean, the quintessential movie that captures our obsession and concern over Y2K was Office Space, where literally the guy's job was to recompute the numbers or transfer the dates to new spreadsheets so that the world wouldn't come to an end. And what's interesting also about that movie is there was this kind of sense of like real boredom. And so I'm curious, looking back on it, what do you feel were the actual feelings that pervaded the time? What did people feel during the 1990s? If we could talk about something like that in the aggregate, what was the feeling of the time? Well, I mean, Office Space is an interesting example, because you say there (17/57)
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