This cartoon was written before the furor over Y2K (or even the phrase Y2K) had emerged into public consciousness. But even so, there was a certain giddiness in the media about the end of the millennium. If the Y2K hadn't come along, someone would have invented it. (Or maybe, as I specultated in a later, not-yet-posted Weltschmerz cartoon, some 60s nihilist hacker actually did.) It is an interesting hindsight read, since our almost religioius obsession with landmark dates and round numbers has not subsided.
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