{"id":17039,"date":"2024-12-31T05:39:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T04:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/how-a-batch-of-tinned-meat-fostered-fears-of-the-millennium-bug\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T05:39:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T04:39:29","slug":"how-a-batch-of-tinned-meat-fostered-fears-of-the-millennium-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/how-a-batch-of-tinned-meat-fostered-fears-of-the-millennium-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"How a batch of tinned meat fostered fears of the millennium bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer system errors led to huge costs for countries as they prepared for disaster that never materialised<\/p>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve 25 years ago, sane people worried that the modern world was about to melt down.<\/p>\n<p>The millennium bug seemed to be threatening to crash the world\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/31\/how-a-batch-of-tinned-meat-fostered-fears-of-the-millennium-bug\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/89f2505e3231f923600e995a9b9a4dda125613ae\/0_0_2048_1229\/master\/2048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1a07c7c8ac22a398cef8140090d189d3\" title=\"How a batch of tinned meat fostered fears of the millennium bug\" \/>Computer system errors led to huge costs for countries as they prepared for disaster that never materialised<br \/>\nOn New Year\u2019s Eve 25 years ago, sane people worried that the modern world was about to melt down.<br \/>\nThe millennium bug seemed to be threatening to crash the world\u2019s 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. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer system errors led to huge costs for countries as they prepared for disaster that never materialised On New Year\u2019s 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\u2019s computer systems, as technology struggled to distinguish between &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/how-a-batch-of-tinned-meat-fostered-fears-of-the-millennium-bug\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How a batch of tinned meat fostered fears of the millennium bug<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}