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The Daily Feather — Yearning for Y3K

The Daily Feather — Yearning for Y3K

Oct 05, 2023
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In computers’ early days, memory was so costly, to save space, programmers abbreviated the four-digit year designation and stored only the final two digits. Computers recognized “98” as “1998.” In th…

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