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What name was given to the feared computer bug that many believed would cause widespread system failures when the calendar rolled over to the year 2000?
Answer
Y2K
Y2K — short for 'Year 2000' — referred to the concern that computers storing years as two digits would misread '00' as 1900, causing catastrophic failures. Governments and businesses spent an estimated $300–600 billion on remediation, and the transition ultimately passed without major incident.
💡 Did you know?
The U.S. government spent an estimated $100 billion preparing for Y2K — more than the Apollo program's inflation-adjusted total — and the clock struck midnight largely without incident.
Other options people guess
- The Millennium Virus
- Bug 2000
- Century Zero
Topics
- 1990s
- y2k
- internet-history
- nostalgia
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