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The Story

“I'd shut Apple down and
give the money back to

the shareholders.”

Michael Dell, 1997
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“We view the dimensions of the year 2000 issue as enormous, with potentially disastrous global consequences to both b

US & Australian citizens were
recommended to leave Russia

Chinese Premier Zhang declares
“By order of the State Council, the power grid will not fail”

“The END of the world!?!” Y2K
COUNTDOWN
Time Magazine

In Japan 8% would not
leave their homes

AUSTRALIA: Bus ticke

“The vast majority of these stories are irresponsible scaremongering”

Anthony Finkelstein, Daily Telegraph, 1998

1996

business and government” - RICHARD GRASSO, President, New York Stock Exchange 2.14

Brazilian government printed additional 6-7 billion Brazilian Reais

US: ‘The Naval Observatory’ displayed the date as 19100 on its website 2.12
2.10

SPAIN: Worker was summoned to an industrial tribunal on 3rd February 1900 2.08
2.06

et validation machines failed 2.04

2.02

“It is clear that estimates of the nature and severity of the problem were wildly exaggerated” - Anthony Finkelstein, 2000 2001

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Milk Consumption (kg/capita/yr)400 Optimism triumphs over pessimism:
Netherlands Dow Jones Traders increase their
activity by 4 billion trades a
day in response to a 10% 4 billion extra trades per day
increase in value per
month. But it takes
a 20% drop to
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In 1996 the 11 founder nations
140 of the Eurozone won 200 Olympic medals. -4
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in 2008 and 157 in 2012.

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