Was the Y2K Bug Really a Hoax?
Update: 2024-11-28
Description
The Millenium Bug was supposed to bring the world to a halt, but governments claimed they squashed the problem. Was it all a panic over nothing?
On a special episode of CANADALAND, COMMONS and The Hatchet host Arshy Mann speaks to the Canadian programmer who alerted the world to the Y2K Bug, and he speaks to the other Canadian programmer who was hell-bent on proving the bug was a hoax.  Â
Host: Arshy Mann
Credits: Jordan Cornish (Producer, Mixing & Mastering), Noor Azrieh (Producer), Caleb Thompson (production support), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Publisher)
Guests: Peter De Jager, David Robert Loblaw
Further Reading:
 Y2K: The strange, true history of how Canada prepared for an apocalypse that never happened, but changed us all - The Globe and Mail
You got conned and I told you so - The Globe and Mail- Peter De Jager’s Y2K: An Autobiography
The Hatchet, Arshy Mann’s and Jordan Cornish’s new publication
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