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BY DON AUDETTE
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
The idea is to record what it is like to live in Rappahannock County in the Year 2000 - what people and organizations are doing; their observations on things. It’s all voluntary. Results would be kept in a special archive in the Rappahannock County Library for public use in the future. The second in this series of articles covers writing about the county.
A whole year is available to write down something about the county. How to start? What to write about? The answer is Y2K. Y2K (the Year 2000 in computer jargon) is when all the computers in the world face the problem of going from 1999-2000. Since most old computer programs use only 99 to stand for 1999, the shift to 00 might be taken as 1900. Some people think it will cause the end of life on earth as we know it; others will ignore the problem entirely.
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