Wash Post gets Technical Sun.Style section ---WOW!!!

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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

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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.



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