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There was a frenzy of celebrations on New Year's Eve 1999. But amid the partying, there was also some anxiety over the effects of a potential global computer meltdown, the so-called Millennium Bug - or Y2K.
(Photo: The White House Y2K Crisis Centre in Washington in 1999. Credit : AP)
By BBC World Service4.8
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There was a frenzy of celebrations on New Year's Eve 1999. But amid the partying, there was also some anxiety over the effects of a potential global computer meltdown, the so-called Millennium Bug - or Y2K.
(Photo: The White House Y2K Crisis Centre in Washington in 1999. Credit : AP)

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