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World Service,11 Sep 1996,18 mins

Millennium Bug

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Do you remember the Millennium Bug hype? Business consultant Peter De Jager explains why we thought the world's computers were going to fail. This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1996.

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