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On New Year’s Eve 25 years ago, sane people worried that the modern world was about to melt down.
The millennium bug seemed to be threatening to crash the world’s computer systems, as technology struggled to distinguish between the years 1900 and 2000. The public, faced with daily predictions of potentially terrible outcomes, braced themselves nervously.
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