The End Of The 20th Century
Next month we will celebrate and the beginning of a new millennium. The year 2000. Although the third millennium doesn't officially begin until Jan. 1, 2001, when every numeral in 1999 rolls over and the year 2000 comes in, a lot is going to be going on. When the sixth-century monk Dionysius invented the calendar, he was working before the invention of the zero, and therefore started his system with the year 1 AD, his calculation of the year of the birth of Jesus. Thus, the millennium doesn't officially end until the last day of the year 2000. However, the majority of the world is preparing to celebrate the new millenium this year. Today I am going to talk about: 1) SOME MILLENNIUM ...
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and Clark finished exploring the western US. Gold was discovered in California in 1848. The first half of the 20th century saw both WWI AND WWII. Unforgettable names like George Washington, Beethoven, Mozart, Thomas Edison, Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther King Jr., Shakespeare, Hitler, Joan of Arc, Einstein, Napoleon, The Kennedy’s, and da Vinci all led there lives during this millennium.
So as we cap off such a memorial millenium, we will also see what is to come of the Y2K problem or the millenium bug which is expected to cause somewhere between 300-858 billion dollars worth of damages to computers around the world. This breakdown of computer systems, or the Y2K bug as it has been dubbed, is caused by the many computer systems that use software that tracks dates with only the last two numbers of the year, such as 99 instead of 1999. When 00 comes up for the year 2000, many computers will view it as 1900 instead, potentially leading to failures in business, transportation, ...
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