This was not actually dark, but more like 'dimly lit with despair.'
QA teams were formed, only to be immediately disbandied by their own self-fulfilling prophesies.
The world of QA was a mess of bug reports, feature creep, and endless meetings.
Year 2000: The Y2K bug was discovered.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates on the history of QA, or just go back and re-read phase 3, because let's face it, it's probably more interesting than this.