Y2K culture and aesthetics
Chapter 1
The millennium bug and tech optimism
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Chapter 2
Metallic fashion and futuristic style
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Chapter 3
Music videos and the MTV era
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Chapter 4
Handheld gadgets and virtual pets
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Y2K culture and aesthetics
Ch 1 · The millennium bug and tech optimism
sonia They said the screens would fade to black (no way!) / But we patched the code and never looked back (yeah, yeah!)
Fun Fact
Y2K bug cost: Countries spent over $300 billion globally to fix the Y2K computer bug before the millennium arrived.
Glossary
millennium bug (noun)
A computer glitch caused by storing calendar dates using only the last two digits of a year. Global investments to fix the bug before January 1, 2000, fueled a massive technology boom.
A computer glitch caused by storing calendar dates using only the last two digits of a year. Global investments to fix the bug before January 1, 2000, fueled a massive technology boom.
Quiz
Which website hosting service, acquired by Yahoo! in 1999, allowed users to build personal pages with animated GIFs?
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What did early web designers use to track how many people visited their GeoCities pages?