
There was a certain feeling in the air in the last few weeks of 1999.
It was the end of the millennium and for months – if not years – we had been hearing about the impending doom of Y2K.
Headlines splashed across every major newspaper told us when the clock struck midnight on January 31, a problem with the coding in computerised systems would wreak havoc around the world.
Computers would shut down, banks would crash, cash registers wouldn’t be able to operate.
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At 11.59pm people across the globe stood around – holding their half-drunk glasses of cheap sparkling wine, singing Auld Lang Syne off tune – and waited for their giant grey home PC to cark it.
Then… nothing.
Midnight came and went and the world as we know it didn’t end.
The same thing has happened – to a lesser extent – over the last month as the world prepared for Gwyneth Paltrow’s docu-series, The Goop Lab, to drop on Netflix.