LSW 200: Surfing to the End of the World  

Y2K


y2k Back to Basics:, submitted by Jackie Dombrowski
Bill Conley gives survival techniques for the y2k problem. His site shows how banks and businesses will be effected, among other things. Register your name in the Survival Ring, be updated with pertinent information, and establish your own site. Bill Conley writes to people who are computer literate, may have a family, and are concerned about y2k and how it will effect them. There are varying links, like y2k coin solicitation, and the dangers of being around water when y2k strikes. One link, by USA Today, contains interviews of airline representatives, spokes people, and travel agents. They calm people's fear of flying over New Year's by proving that some airlines have booked flights for the year 2000, however, complications may arise as the date comes closer. (Accessed March 7, 1999)
The Year 2000 and Y2K problems
This site maintained by the Digital Financier tries to address the problems from the business point of view. A generous list of links, especially to sources for fixing the problems involved.
Another site dedicated to providing reliable information on the "millennium bug" is the Year 2000 Information Center
The Family Survival Center.
A site dedicated to helping families prepare for the worst case Y2K scenarios. Among the site's numerous predictions of future disasters and 'earth changes," prominence is given to Richard Noone's prediction of calamity on or about May 2, 2000 when a line up of major planets will create a major stress on the earth.

LSW 200
Spring '99
http://merlin.alleg.edu/employee/a/acarr/lsw/y2k.html
Last updated March 28, 1999