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 Y2K EVERYWHERE
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Birth of the bug
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Household appliance check
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Air travel
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Oil industry
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Banking industry
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India's software gold mine
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Other trouble dates
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Survivalists stock up
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Countdown to the Y2K bug
It has been called by some the electronic equivalent of that strange weather phenomenon, El Niño. But is the Y2K bug really something to be feared or is it simply a lot of hype? CNN's half-hour special "Countdown to the Millennium Bug," which aired in January 1999, takes you on a technological journey that tracks the bug from its inception, looks at some of the predicted fallout and provides context to some of the paranoia.
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