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Millennial Madness

Will the turn of the millennium be the end of the world as we know it, or just a big party? That's what people were asking as January 1, 2000 approached. Actually, the millennium won't really turn until 2001, but January 1, 2000 is not only the more attractive party date, but also when lots of computer software was expected to fail, a problem referred to as "Y2K". Would this be only a minor nuisance, or would it lead to a Great Depression or even a general collapse of civilization? Should you take all of your cash out of the bank and head for the hills, or was that just panic-mongering? There were lots of Web sites that had something to say about it. But when the big day finally came, it turned out to be no big deal: the bugs never bit, and while there were some big parties, a majority stayed at home. And on January 1, the usual assortment of bowl games awaited the couch potatoes of America.

The Millennium Bug

• Year2000.Com has lots of info, links, and resources about the Year 2000 software problem.
• Y2K-Status.Org links to various sites giving the status of Y2K compliance worldwide.
• Y2K Today is another comprehensive site on this issue.
• Yahoo links to lots of Y2K news items.
• JBAWORLD's Year 2000 site.
• Y2KWomen.Com is a "For Women Only" site with Y2K resources from a feminine perspective (whatever that means).
• CNET Year 2000 Feature
• Family Interactive Net's Y2K Site expects the worst of the Y2K crisis, hawks some books and videos about it, and seems to have a Christian religious bias (a belief system which leads some to expect millennial disaster, predisposing them to think Y2K will be cataclysmic).
• Heritage Farms 2000 is a proposed self-sufficient development for people trying to escape a possible collapse of civilization due to the millennium bug.
• Free2000 predicts a major catastrophe in the year 2000, and is selling survivalist stuff like food reserves to people panicked by this.
• Surviving Y2K is a site run by the Y2K SIG, a special interest group of American Mensa. (Like all SIGS in Mensa, this site speaks only for the particular SIG's leaders, not for Mensa, which has no opinions.)
• Y2K Links on the Sam Andy Foods site, which is trying to sell survival food for a possible Y2K apocalypse.
• Story of a "year-00-related" computer failure in 1971.
• Y2K Problem with some versions of FormMail script

The Millennium Party

• Everything2000.Com chronicles worldwide party plans and other millennium issues.
• AllAbout2000.Com is another site with lots of millennium party listings.
• Pole to Pole 2000is organizing a millennium journey for youth from the North Pole to the South Pole.
• Times Square Business Improvement District, site of the big New Year's Eve ball-dropping bash.

Other Info

• Y2KCulture.Com is all about the "culture" of Y2K.
• Millennium 321 claims to be "The Official Web Site of the New Millennium."
• Royal Greenwich Observatory Leaflet on the Year 2000
• Project 21st Century
• Description of the year 1000 from a French chronicler of the time
• Millennium Bugsy, a novelty stuffed animal

Humor

• Duh-2000 gives awards for the stupidest things anyone has said or written about the Y2K problem.
• RFC 2550 -- Y10K and Beyond -- A tongue-in-cheek proposal for a properly-sortable ASCII representation of dates stretching infinitely far into the future or past -- and it actually works!
• Real Y10K Solutions from YUCK!
• We Don't Want to Party Like It's 1999
• Bug Off 2000
• 2K Madness takes a lighthearted view of Y2K and other "millennium" issues.

This page was first created 30 Aug 1998, and was last modified 01 Jan 2000.

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