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Cannot give you the link!, The article in Tomorrows Wash. Post is a MUST Read. (sun. 7-18-99) Usually--"Sir Linkmeister" can come to the rescue.If not---washingtonpost.com---- style section--Three FULL pages--and I guarantee the masses will not read past the first page!!! Ignorance is Bliss---it really is you know!!
-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), July 17, 1999
What exactly is the point? What is the big story?
-- (don't know @ what the hell. your talking about), July 17, 1999.
Well for one thing the Post reporter interview the founder of ASCII--- who---the reporter states has recently moved from the city to a very rural area. Must read!
-- David Butts (dciinc@aol.com), July 17, 1999.
the washington post article is at.......http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-07/18/037r-071899-idx.html
have fun - it's a longy!
Robert
-- Same as b4 (NWphotog@FOXCOMM.NET), July 18, 1999.
The article is basically about decisions made over the past 40 years that got us into this mess we call Y2K:http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-07/18/037r-071899-idx.html
-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), July 18, 1999.
Link to a 1984 article on Y2K:http://www.computerworld.com/home/features.nsf/all/980803schoen
-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), July 18, 1999.
Also see this article about early use of the two-digit year:http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/2782
-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), July 18, 1999.
Also see...http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/2803
-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), July 18, 1999.
This article would have been a lot more amusing to me if I wasn't a programmer, and wasn't worried about exactly who is going to take the fall for this next year....
-- Michael Goodfellow (mgoodfel@best.com), July 18, 1999.
Is linkmister totally cool or what...? Thanx!
-- clicking away (derigueur2@aol.com), July 18, 1999.
The January 1999 Vanity Fair article with a long section on Y2K's origins:http://www.wild2k.com/database/vanityfair.html
-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), July 18, 1999.