What some people considered to be the greatest hoax in history and the biggest fizzer and non-event of all time actually made it's presence felt and left a mark on these pages in the first week of year 2000
 
If you are using a web browser version 2 or earlier, then the time and date of opening this page, a Javascript feature incorporated within this web page, will not be displayed at the top of the page
 
The script will only execute with Java enabled Internet Explorer browser versions 3 and above; and with Netscape, version 4 and above

• Now there were some computers (this news desk lap-top for instance) that failed to accept the Y2K and displayed instead, for some odd reason, the year 100
  

As a matter of interest the script had worked fine for all of 1999 on both the portable and desktop machines

To correct the date problem the Javascript program code required modification by "he who is skilled(?)" in fiddling with the software code to accept the new year
 

• So there you go, this Y2K Bug thing really wasn't a hoax after all!

But it leads up to another current aviation safety issue
 
As you are aware by now CASA in their wisdom only approve an "Organisation" if their IT system is "Y2K Compliant"

• Should they have also included as a result of this evidence any lap-top or similar computer used by aviators to access weather and NOTAM's on the WWW?