• phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    There was big end-of-the-world hysteria when the year 1000 was coming up. And dozens of dates after that.

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      12 days ago

      It was a pretty big deal in 2000, too, with Y2K. It wasnt the literal end of the world they were afraid of, more like a computer end of the world, but it turned out to be as overblown as Y1K.