Wasn T: Star Wars and Computer Programs

wasn t: The year 2000 was around the corner, and with it, the threat of disaster, according to The Independent. Planes were predicted to fall out of the sky and banking systems speculated to implode when the clock struck midnight on the first day of the new millennium. In 1999, the world was braced for chaos. When computer programs were first written in the 1960s, engineers had used a two-digit code for the year, leaving out the 19 . Experts worried that programs would not interpret the 00 correctly, causing catastrophic glitches and turning our electronics against us. Instead, New Year's Eve passed without incident, and Star Wars The Phantom Menace, all of a sudden, wasn't the only giant anti-climax 1999 had to offer. The Millennium Bug, as it became known, was to wreak havoc on us all, according to magazine covers and newspaper warnings. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.