what led to y2k 
y2k came about largely due to economics at the dawn of the computer age the programs being written required the type of data storage that was extremely costly since not many anticipated the success of this new technology or the speed with which it would take over firms were judicious in their budgets this lack of foresight especially given that the millennium was just about 40 years away led to programmers being forced to using a 2 digit code instead of a 4 digit code to designate the year 