In December of 1999, mention “Y2K” or the “Millennium Bug” and people would shiver in fear…

That’s right, folks were low key panicked about the year 2000, because they thought all things digital would fail. In short, The Y2K bug was a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations that resulted from the practice of truncating a four-digit year to two digits. This made year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900, causing various errors, including the display of dates and the automated ordering of dated records or real-time events.

Daddy, like others, was so stressed about Y2K. He prepped the computers, printed off documents he feared would be lost forever, and read up on all possible precautionary measures. He also loved to make jokes about the Millennium Bug because Donna Banks’ dog was named Doodle Bug. Lastly, one of his favorite things was to write “RUE4Y2K?” to see if people could figure it out.