Archive Entry #51: January 6, 2000

First there was Geraldo Rivera and the empty Al Capone vault, then came Y2K, with its many predicted catastrophes, few if any of which came to pass. Why the world and its computers, which were not designed to handle the shift to a nee millennium, were just going to fall apart once the calendar read January 2000.... at least that’s what the worriers said.

This entry is not about Y2K, but rather about worry. Most of us have some form of Y2K concern on our minds right now, so perhaps this 15 year old piece still has relevance.

With this entry we come to the end of 2014's archive entries. With a bit more than six months of new archive entries to go, we've heard from 24 different calendar years, which means there are six years we haven't heard from (1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, and 2014). There is just one new entry remaining from 12 different years, which makes sense since in these first 51 entries we've completed the slate from only two years (2005 and 2008).

Join us on January 2 for the first column of 2015!

COMING NEXT: From January 1998 comes that year’s first archive representative as well as the first archive entry for 2015. Topic? New Year’s resolutions... wouldn’t you know. Find it HERE.