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Y2K humor
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What will really happen in the Year 2000.
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"99 Bottles of Beer" song gets stuck in an infinite loop
At the stroke of midnight on 12/31/1999, Windows 99* turns back into DOS 1.0;
the Pentium* V turns back into an 8088, and the Handsome User is left holding a beautiful glass mouse.
Bob Dole's age erroneously listed with only two digits.
Software engineers point out that since computers think it's almost 1900, we technically have to "party like it's 1899" (which, frankly, doesn't seem like that much fun).
Microsoft declares the year 1900 to be the new standard of the "Gatesian" Calendar.
Unexpected demand for COBOL programmers results in severe personnel shortage at McDonald's restaurants.
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