"December 31, 1999: The world braced for disaster as midnight approached. Then, nothing happened."
Do you remember the run-up to the moment the calendar clicked over to Saturday 1 January 2000 – when some people seemed certain modern civilisation would fall?
Filmmaker and podcaster Dan Taberski Photo: Dan Taberski / Twitter
For some people, the end of 1999 was no time for celebration.
In Headlong: Surviving Y2K, Dan Taberski meets computer coders, conspiracy theorists and survivalists who believed the Millennium was the beginning of the end
He brings the hysteria of the period vividly to life, with a wry sense of humour, in a podcast that is part historical record, part collection of personal stories.
Taberski says Headlong is the second part of a series which every season "takes a person, moment, or story from the culture that we've been getting wrong, and goes back to explore it".
The first part was last year's Missing Richard Simmons (a popular show which attempted to find out what had happened to American fitness and short shorts guru Richard Simmons after he seemed to drop off the map sometime in early 2014).
We tune into the first episode of Headlong: Surviving Y2K – 'Millennium Approaches'.
Listen to the full episode below:
Headlong: Surviving Y2K is presented by Dan Taberski and produced by Henry Molofsky.
