The 10 Biggest Disappointments of the Decade

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	The 10 Biggest Disappointments of the Decade

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11-11-2009 7:37 AM

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There have been some amazing, life-affirming occurrences over the past ten years. But you don’t want to hear about those, do you? Thought not. Here’s the most crushing letdowns of the decade…

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ac58f1a-c635-4b68-942b-4a8b87f06135/13A3C1F9-3D5C-4885-BF0C-0FB394B93769/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/the-10-biggest-disappointments-of-the-decade/" href="http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/the-10-biggest-disappointments-of-the-decade/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/the-10-biggest-disappointments-of-the-decade/"><H2>The 10 Biggest Disappointments of the Decade</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/the-10-biggest-disappointments-of-the-decade/"><P>There have been some amazing, life-affirming occurrences over the past ten years. But you don’t want to hear about those, do you?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/the-10-biggest-disappointments-of-the-decade/"><P>Thought not. Here’s the most crushing letdowns of the decade…</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/the-10-biggest-disappointments-of-the-decade/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/img/C00AFD11-B6FF-4634-AD4B-A78DF4E260C5" alt="Y2K" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/the-10-biggest-disappointments-of-the-decade/"><P><STRONG>10. The Y2K Bug: Crappest techno-crisis ever (1st January 2000)</STRONG>
The disappointments started early this decade. For years there had been rumblings about an impending IT meltdown due to the widespread (and rather short-sighted) abbreviation of years into two digits.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.knowyourmoney.co.uk/index.php/2009/11/the-10-biggest-disappointments-of-the-decade/"><P>As media scaremongers counted down to the apocalyptic ’00 switchover, the Millenium Bug hype ramped up considerably and, as I remember it, people began stockpiling tins of analogue food and steam-powered hair straighteners in a desperate bid to stave off the annihilation of civilisation.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13A3C1F9-3D5C-4885-BF0C-0FB394B93769/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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