Wow, @npr.org really missed the mark on this one. I was in IT then, and we busted our be-hinds for months to evaluate/rewrite our company's software, and upgrade thousands of PCs, so that the rollover would become a non-event. The intent of all that effort was for there to be "no hype."
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People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.
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