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Collected Item: “2020 is What 2000 Thought She Was Gonna Be”

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2020 is What 2000 Thought She Was Gonna Be

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Instagram meme

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

When 1999 was to turn into 2000, there were all kinds of dire warnings and predictions circulating. Experts were wondering if the computers could make the roll over into a new millennium. Forecasts of the world's computers shutting down were everywhere.
But that didn't happen
Until now. The world is shut down.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

2000, 2020, new milennium, worldisending, disaster

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

thefunnyintrovert

Give this story a date.

2020-05-25
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