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In the ten-part series, WDR travels back to the 90s - to a time when cell phones were still pressed to the ear like giant bones, music stations such as EinsLive and Viva were launched and the old Ruhr area became a local recreation area.
The year 1999 brought a movie to the cinemas that became a cult, a world champion hammer throw, hunting for cute grouse - and the panic of a millennium bug.
The two-digit year, which many computers in industry and administration use, caused a minor panic.
The fear was that if the 99 was followed by the double zero for the year 2000, the computer would interpret this as 1900.
As a result, computer networks would collapse.
This would also have affected the cities in NRW.
But the PCs were still running, and one thing above all else was being played on them: gaming!
The hunt for the grouse conquered offices all over the country.
The inventors of the game were based in Wattenscheid.
Their animal success led to a kind of high-flying frenzy: they went public and played the big game.
But then it came out: the balance sheets were fake.
The grouse had shot itself down.
