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By Rodrigo Santos Andrade
As midnight approached on December 31, 1999, Australia held its breath. The Y2K "Millennium Bug" threatened to crash computers worldwide, potentially crippling power grids, banks, hospitals, and more.
"We would be like a planet full of blind people," experts warned.
Families were stockpiling water and food, banks were distributing emergency cash, Ansett grounded all flights and the government spent $12 billion to prevent the "catastrophe".
Supermarkets were emptied. Emergency services were on standby. The nation braced for digital doomsday.
And then… nothing happened.
A fascinating time capsule of mass hysteria and the greatest tech scare that never was.
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