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Millenium Quilt Swap - Y2K

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Good morning my Quilty Friends. Todays post is about the Millenium Quilt or Y2K Swap. Do you remember back in 1999, when we were all so excited about reaching our 2000th year. There was much speculation about it’s effects on the world in general and computer systems in particular. There was a school of thought that felt many computer systems would be unable to cope with the change from 1999 to 2000. Well, happily we reach the end of 1999 and burst into 2000 without a hitch. Happy days. Anyways, over the weekend I was taking my ‘Millenium quilt’ off my bed and thought, um…..my quilty friends might like to know about this. Back in the day, before laptops, tabs and very cleaver mobile phones. I was sat (as many of us did back then) in the little bedroom where our computer was housed, wandering slowly (dail up) thru the web when I came across something called the Y2K swap. Basically you put your email address and where you were from onto the Y2K website to join in with the swap