Response to Critique of Latimer's Essay - contributions welcomed (VERY long post)

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I had a couple of people write me about lack of research, so I started going through my pages. If you want my meager internet findings so far...I am not sure how many of these links still work but I do have them all printed on paper.

Y2K General Articles:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1999/01/5568.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1998/10/4962.html http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/y2k-tinalrt.htm http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1999/01/5571.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1999/02/5713.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1999/02/5689.html http://www.al.com/millennium/stories/y2kguru.html http://www.impressionmag.com/y2k.html http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/zdy2k/stories/0,6158,2213323,00.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1999/01/5561.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1999/01/5614.html http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1998/12/5461.html http://iht.com/IHT/TODAY/SAT/FPAGE/y2k.html http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/990213/2273979.htnl http://www.gospelcom.net/icta/y2k/html/article.html# http://amcity.com/atlanta/stories/1999/02/15/smallb6.html?h=y2k

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/Wplate/1999-01/01/0821-010199-idx .html http://www.equipped.com/y2kbug.htm http://www.equipped.com/y2k.htm http://infoseek.go.com/Content?arn=BW1095...sv=IS&lk=noframes&col=NX&k t=A&ak=news1486 http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,31727,00.html?st.ne.87.head http://search2.usatoday.com:80/plweb-cgi/...=all&TemplateName=predoc.t mpl&setCookie=1 http://www.impressionmag.com/y2k.html http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/artucles/24gleick.ht ml http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/y2k/y2k_ratcliffechat.html

(No hyperlink) NY Times Feb 9, 1999 'Fear of the Year 2000 bug is a problem,too by Barnaby Feder

http://www.zdnet.com/cc/yahoo/y2k/transcript/y2k0208.html http://www.year2000.com/archive/y2kdoomsday.html http://starbulletin.com/1999/02/26/news/story4.html http://members.xoom.com/BruceWilliam/y2k.htm

(No Hyperlink) Time for Kids The Year 2000 Bug Special January 15th, 1999

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2209104,00.html http://archive.dallasnews.com/getdo...n+Bureau+of+the+Dallas+Morning+N ews http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/zdy2k/stories/0,6158,2206553,00.html http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/02/senate.y2k/ http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/tc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990302/tc/ y2k_5.html http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/mtb-hoax.html http://www.amcity.com/atlanta/stories/1999/02/15/smallb6.html?h=y2k http://www.dailystar.com.lb/27_02_99/art14.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/21/1981-022199-idx .html

PSYCHOLOGY

http://www.DavisLogic.com/doom.htm http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/zdy2k/stories/0,6158,2217402,00.html http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/08/human-y2k.idg/index.html http://www.bankinfo.com/year2000/anxiety.html http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=363e09320 http://www.thoughtcontagion.com/tmc.htm

(No hyperlink) Honolulu Advertiser 2/25/99 Y2K: a big worry only if we make it so

http://www.gospelcom.net/ccmag/y2k/pessimists.html http://www.bugnet.com/analysis/y2k_debunk.html

(No Hyperlink) Millennial Cults ad the Concerned Christians by Michael Shermer, Skeptic mag

http://www.zdnet.com/zdy2k/1998/12/5405.html http://www.abcnews.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody64.html http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9812/28/fever.y2k.idg http://expressnews.com/pantheon/sun-news/suns-nc/1301hpd4.shtml

(No Hyperlink) The New York Times national Report 01/24/99 Doomsday Machines by James Gleick

http://www.nytmes.com/library/tech/99/02/biztech/articles/09.panic.htm l http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/millennium021099.html http://web3.stlnet.com/postnet/news/wires...National/5706DB2392CC84EF8 6256713003D958F http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/y2kready05.htm http://www.bugnet.com/analysis/y2k_embedded_sys.html http://www.microsoft.com/technet/topics/year2k/msda/myths.htm

Whew. That's the first two sections. I have sixteen sections to go, but I and my fingers are pooped. The sections are:

Economics

1998 an 1999 problems

Hype

Bad Idea

Religion

Airplanes and Travel

Fuel

Critical Systems and Power

Telephones

Government

Banking

PCs and Personal Computing

Embedde Systems

Appliances

Food

Medical

Each has about the same number of articles as above. I'll post each section, as long as the board doesn't think I'm spamming uncontrollably.

If some of the links have changed/don't work/have typoes my apologies...I am typing all this by hand (I still have a devil of a time with 'millennium'). However, I do have all the refernces I cited on paper...and you can't change the web address of paper. :) So if a link has moved or disappeared, let me know and I can change the address, or cite the article (though I don't want to type the whole thing in, I will if I have to).

At least its a start.

Jonathan

-A computer glitch will not bring about the end of civilization. It takes hordes of panicking people to do that.-

-- Jonathan Latimer (latimer@q-a.net), March 23, 1999


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