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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 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.