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White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The year formerly known as Y2K began with euphoria and not—as many suspected—a computer crash. As subsequent events proved, a different sort of crash was just around the corner. The dot.com bubble wouldn't burst for a few more weeks—the NASDAQ reached its all time high on March 10, 2000—so the fin de siècle sense of good times and prosperity could hang …

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