Things you do not need to know

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This page was first posted as a countdown to the new millenium when many feared a digital catastrophe caused by the Y2K "bug".

Number of Days Until Year 2025

Guy Fawkes Day - 2024

An auspicious, and potentially ironic day in the USA in 2024 because it is the Presidential Election!.

Year 2025 Countdown

Time Left:

Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to "Y2K".
It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place.

It was estimated to have cost USD400 billion to pay for the global armies of programmers recruited to scour billions of lines of code to avert the 'Millennium Bug'.
That is five times as much as it would have cost to cancel the debt that is crushing and subjugating Third World countries!

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Published on: 8th April 2001