what happened on april 29, 2000
April 29, 2000, sits in the historical record like a quiet hinge: nothing shattered, yet everything shifted. Investors, diplomats, coders, and climate scientists remember it as the day their dashboards blinked first. By sunset, the Nasdaq had posted its then-largest one-day point drop, the U.S. census logged the fastest-growing county in American history, and the…