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31/12/2015 GMT

The Millennium Bug

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How the world waited for a potential global computer meltdown on New Year's Eve 1999

How the world waited for a potential global computer meltdown, which never occurred, on New Year's Eve 1999.

There was a frenzy of celebrations on New Year's Eve 1999. But amid the partying, there was also some anxiety over the effects of a potential global computer meltdown, the so-called Millennium Bug - or Y2K.

(Photo: The White House Y2K Crisis Centre in Washington in 1999.  Credit : AP)

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