Past as prologue: History provides some insight into our obsession with 2000.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | December 31, 1998| | Copyright

Why are we so darn fascinated with a simple number? You'd think it was the end of the world or something.

Well, some people DO think that. Others see it as the beginning of the end, with that Y2K bug crawling into our computers, turning clocks back 100 years and dragging the modern world along for the ride.

Then there's everyone else, firmly convinced life will go on when the calendar flips to the year 2000 but still watching the approach of the new millennium with rapt attention and even subconscious anticipation.

Don't worry. It's natural. You ...

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