Y2K was an important year for many reasons. First was the belief that many computers were going to stop working since they worked on the notion that last two digits stood for the current year in 19xx. Since there would now be 2 zeros in the last spot, a lot of computer were going to ready 1900 instead of 2000. This was causing a lot of panic about vast areas shutting down due to this error.

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