This story is taken from the winter 2025 issue of Dazed, which is on sale internationally from December 5. Order a copy of the magazine here.The year 2000 was heralded by apocalyptic visions: nuclear meltdowns, financial ruin, planes falling out of the sky. Due to a minor timekeeping quirk in contemporary computer systems – known as the millennium bug – people believed that, when the clockhellip;read more raquo;