Nitpick: this wasn’t presented as the future when it first came out, was it? Wasn’t it just set in a fictional “now”?
Yeah… because programmers like me spent most of 1998 and 1999 letting our regular duties slip while we rewrote old code and converted databases to use four-digit years instead of two. Y2K didn’t cause any problems *because *of the early warnings.
Oh, and a bit of trivia: When “Thundarr” creator Steve Gerber met his friend and fellow writer, Marty Pasko, for dinner, he told him about the characters in his new series, and what an effort it was to come up with a good name for the big, hairy brute. Pasko glanced across the street at the entrance to UCLA, and said, “How about Ookla?” And history was made.
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Nitpick: this wasn’t presented as the future when it first came out, was it? Wasn’t it just set in a fictional “now”?[/QUOTE
After rereading a little of the book, id have to agree with you. Though its allways had a little of the futuristic feel to me.