Nathan HuseIntroduction/Thesis New Year's Eve 1999 was an exciting time for a large group of people around the world, entering the new millennium. It was also a time of paranoia for an equal number of people. The advent of personal computer use was booming at this time, as were large numbers of uninformed people who did not understand the internal programming of their computer. The Year 2000 Problem, abbreviated as Y2K, was the problem of using two-digit dates in a lot of software, instead of four digits. It was feared that by January 1, 2000, a large number of software and services would no longer work because of this programming error. The Y2K problem was a significant event in recent history, one that was overhyped by the media and had little impact on daily operations, due to the work of programmers. Before the year 2000, there was little speculation among programmers about a problem that would appear in the year 2000. Many computer programs in use were created between the 1960s and 1980s and stored years with only two decimal digits, that is to say...