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As the years stretched on, however, more and more people were slipping through the cracks of this principle. Computer programmers began to wonder they could determine the age of someone born in '98 when runnning a report in the year 2001. Would it indicate a [[toddler]] or a centenarian? Clearly, something had to be done.

As the years stretched on, however, more and more people were slipping through the cracks of this principle. Computer programmers began to wonder they could determine the age of someone born in '98 when runnning a report in the year 2001. Would it indicate a [[toddler]] or a centenarian? Clearly, something had to be done.

In fact, tens of billions of dollars were spent converting computer programs to handle four-digit years.  

 

There are varying estimates of the total costs related to performing hardware and software analysis, remediation and testing related to the Y2K issue.  Some estimates in the late 1990's put the worldwide cost in the trillions of dollars, but this has been dismissed as hyperbole.  A typical exaggeration was counting hardware/software upgrades that happened to be Y2K-compliant as Y2K-related expenditures, when they would have taken place anyway.  A more accurate estimate of the truly Y2K-driven analysis and cleanup effort would be in the tens of billions of dollars.<ref>[http://www.news.com/2009-1091-232056.html]Everyone pays a price for Y2K hype </ref>

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