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Break out your floppy discs and dial-up modems because we’re going back to the 1990s!
Told entirely through archival footage, Time Bomb Y2K retraces the turn-of-the-century hysteria over the Y2K computer bug. With never-before-seen footage including home movies and vintage TV network coverage, this archival documentary captures the increasingly panicked worries that computers worldwide would stop working when the date flipped to 01/01/00. Time Bomb Y2K features first-hand accounts from computer programmers, doomsday survivalists, congressional hearings, militia members, public access television teenagers, apocalyptic Christians, and, yes, none other than Matt Damon to convey what it was like to live through that very distinct time. The documentary explores what, if anything, we learned from this turning point in our relationship to technology. (80 mins., DCP)
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IMAGE CAPTION Time Bomb Y2K, courtesy HBO Documentary Films.
FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYNational Endowment for the ArtsOhio Humanities
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BYRohauer Collection FoundationWEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BYOhio Department of DevelopmentGreater Columbus Arts CouncilThe Wexner FamilyInstitute of Museum and Library ServicesOhio Arts CouncilCampusParcOhio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery ThemeThe Columbus FoundationNationwide FoundationVorys, Sater, Seymour, and PeaseADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BYMike and Paige CraneAxium PackagingNancy KramerOhio State Energy PartnersOhio History Fund/Ohio History ConnectionLarry and Donna JamesBruce and Joy SollJones DayAlex and Renée Shumate
Past Film/Video
Time Bomb Y2K
