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Saturday, January 1, 2000

January 1, 2000 — the Y2K bug didn't crash civilization, the millennium turned over peacefully, and a new era began. Cell phones, dial-up internet, and the dot-com bubble defined its opening years.

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Why this date?

  • Y2K preparation cost an estimated $300 billion globally in software fixes.
  • Google had been around for about 16 months on January 1, 2000.
  • The decade saw the dot-com crash (2000), 9/11 (2001), and the launch of the iPhone (2007).
  • Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were all founded in the 2000s.

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