Y2K is a numeronym and was the common abbreviation for the year 2000 software problem.
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14 Facts About Y2K
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Acronym Y2K has been attributed to Massachusetts programmer David Eddy in an e-mail sent on 12 June 1995.
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Y2K problem is the electronic equivalent of the El Nino and there will be nasty surprises around the globe.
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Y2K spent the next twenty years trying to make programmers, IBM, the government of the United States and the International Organization for Standardization aware of the problem, with little result.
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Dutch Government promoted Y2K Information Sharing and Analysis Centers to share readiness between industries, without threat of antitrust violations or liability based on information shared.
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Y2K fears drew attention to an older issue, while prompting a solution to a new problem.
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Y2K issue was a major topic of discussion in the late 1990s and as such showed up in most popular media.
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Y2K was exploited by some fundamentalist and charismatic Christian leaders throughout the Western world, particularly in North America and Australia.
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The Chicago Tribune reported that some large fundamentalist churches, motivated by Y2K, were the sites for flea market-like sales of paraphernalia designed to help people survive a social order crisis ranging from gold coins to wood-burning stoves.
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Betsy Hart, writing for the Deseret News, reported that a lot of the more extreme evangelicals used Y2K to promote a political agenda in which downfall of the government was a desired outcome in order to usher in Christ's reign.
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Y2K's noted that, "the cold truth is that preaching chaos is profitable and calm doesn't sell many tapes or books".
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Some expected, at times through so-called prophecies, that Y2K would be the beginning of a worldwide Christian revival.
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Sceptics of the need for a massive effort pointed to the absence of Y2K-related problems occurring before 1 January 2000, even though the 2000 financial year commenced in 1999 in many jurisdictions, and a wide range of forward-looking calculations involved dates in 2000 and later years.
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Critics cite the lack of Y2K-related problems in schools, many of which undertook little or no remediation effort.
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