Woster: From Y2K panic to quiet dawn on the Missouri River

Woster: From Y2K panic to quiet dawn on the Missouri River

I haven’t made New Year’s Eve plans, but I know I won’t be sitting in an old building across from the state Capitol waiting for all the computers in the world to fall apart and destroy civilization as we know it. That’s what I was doing a quarter of a century ago during the computer-coding scare called Y2K (Year 2000.) The scare had its roots in the practice by computer coders of simply using the last two numbers of a year — writing 92 instead o…