If YOU were back in school now, what would be the title to your thesis on Y2K?

-- X-tech (behindthecurtain@oz.com), October 01, 1999

Answers

I am in school right now (working on a Ph.D., as Kurt said in a previous thread, I've spent more time on Y2K than my dissertation)! My title would be "A Geography of Lost Interconnectivity - How Y2k Destroyed the World Economy."

-- James (jpeet@u.washington.edu), October 01, 1999.

X,

The Day the Computers Stood Still, Y2K The Greatest Event Since RAIN!, How Being Cheap Screwed Everybody, Why Technology Sucks, Slavery and Modern Man, Why You Can't Have Enough TP, Hard Assets vs. 1's and O's.

PHD.= Post Hole Digger, PinHead Dyslexic, Piled High and Deep, Pretty Hot and Dangerous, etc.,etc.,etc...

-- ripley (believe it or @not.net), October 01, 1999.

How 'bout..

"Y2K..CONFLICT AND CONCENSUS OF ORGANIZED CHAOS"

Or "THIS IS ANOTHER FINE MESS YOU'VE GOTTEN US INTO OLLIE"

-- Larry (Rampon@cyberramp.net), October 01, 1999.

You picked a fine time to tell me, Vern!

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), October 01, 1999.

"PREPARED TO BE UNPREPARED" or "I CAN LIVE OUTWIT (sic) IT"

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), October 01, 1999.

Because of Al Gore's silence, humans are now on the endangered list.

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), October 01, 1999.

"How Americans became free again, when Y2K killed the Government Dragon"!

-- smitty (smitty@sandiego.com), October 01, 1999.

"If Y2K isn't exactly the "666" or "sign of the beast" predicted in the Book of Revelation, it may prove to be at least 665, the neighbor of the beast."

-- andrea (mebsmebs@hotmail.com), October 01, 1999.

Interconnectivity and Alienation

-- Stan Faryna (faryna@groupmail.com), October 01, 1999.

The curse of binary greed, Steve Jobs last laugh, Eve knew wht she was doing when she picked Apple Bytes, How I learned to love the slide rule, Revenge of the Geeks.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), October 01, 1999.

"A is for Abacus: An Introduction to Manual Data Processing"

-- A (A@AisA.com), October 01, 1999.

How about . .

"Y2K - fear of the dark for grown-ups", or . .

"How Gary North replaced Stephen King as best-seller of horror- fiction without really trying (and made another fortune in the process)?", or . .

"When you're disaffected, any meme will do", or . .

"Aliens ate my date code", or . .

"The rise, and fall, and rise again, and even further fall, and then small rise, and . . oh just where ARE those American programmers these days ? Anyway . . BUY MY BOOKS before the world ends!!!! (subtitled, "who needs credibility when you've got MLM's ?"), or . .

"How I learned to stop thinking and buy more MRE's", or . .

"I may not know much, but I know where my beans are", or . .

"You too can sell a 2 year subscription 10 minutes before the end of the world".

-- PHD - Poor Hysterical Doomers (student@of.insanity.com), October 01, 1999.

Good times, noodle salad.

-- mil (millenium@yahoo.com), October 01, 1999.

Government Is Nothing More Than A Blinking Idiot Light On The Dashboard Of Society.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com)

... And Other Strange Tales From The Global Y2K Melting Pot.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), October 01, 1999.

Difficulties accompanying the attempt to focus on a very big, very fuzzy picture.

Jerry

-- Jerry B (skeptic76@erols.com), October 01, 1999.

"Progression of a Warp Core Breach" or 7 of 9 Where are You?

-- Tim Johnson (timca@webtv.net), October 01, 1999.