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The 1990s are as far away now as the late 60s and early 70s were when that insistent decade began, a decade that was bookended by the gesture of hope as the aftermath of the Berlin Wall finally came tumbling down just a few short months before, and the finality of the party realised as the insanity of the Y2K bug bore down like a spectre, driving everybody to distraction and chaos.