{"id":421,"date":"2006-11-20T07:45:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T07:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2006\/11\/the_bad_y2k_revisited\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T07:45:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T07:45:20","slug":"the_bad_y2k_revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2006\/11\/the_bad_y2k_revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Y2K (revisited)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In late 1999, a group of us with kids in tow went on a holiday weekend in Cloudland State Park. We stayed in cabins. I wrote a poem called “The Bad Y2K,” got some of the kids to help illustrate it, and I created a website<\/a> on AOL using the screen name TheBadY2K. It is still there. Probably will last as long as AOL.<\/strike> [As it continues to decline, AOL shut off member web page services. Moved to mac5. – JC 1\/16\/2009]<\/p>\n

I don’t know how many other people wrote poems about Y2K and had them illustrated by kids, but I felt like this provided some unique, historical insight into the “Year 2000 Problem.” So a link can now be found at the bottom<\/strong> of this Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Y2k<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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