• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My grandmother was born in 1896 and lived to be 102, just long enough for the pre-Y2K computer systems in hospitals to think she was a two-year-old.

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      1 year ago

      Ouch!

      I lost about an hour of my life trying to create a historical timeline in MS Excel. Eventually learned this is impossible with dates earlier than 1900.