https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/12/31/how-california-survived-the-21st-centurys-first-quarter/

It’s hard to fathom that 25 years have passed since the world worried if computers would work after a year with two zeros began.

If you forgot, California’s tech-centric economy was booming in late 1999 even as “Y2K” fears swirled about what might happen to software that never considered the year 2000.