Back to the Future

The Computer-Generated Apocalypse That Never Happened

The Y2K scare prompted Americans to stockpile food and stash cash. Twenty years later, a global pandemic has us doing much of the same.

Bärí A. Williams
ZORA
Published in
5 min readOct 13, 2020

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Y2K in big WordArt letters on top of a Windows 95 desktop with a ton of error messages and a rainbow gradient background.

This story is a part of our Back to the Future series on how key moments in the year 2000

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Bärí A. Williams
ZORA
Writer for

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