Y2K Fallacy

Brain Lenses

Y2K Fallacy

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Y2K Fallacy

Colin Wright

Apr 04, 2023

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Brain Lenses

Y2K Fallacy

This seems like ancient history now, but in the lead-up to the transition from the year 1999 to 2000, there was a firestorm of panic and media coverage related to what became known as the Y2K or Millennium Bug. This bug was related to how most computer code was written at the time…

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