Can you believe that it has been 25 years since we worried that the technical world might fall apart as we welcomed in the new millennium in the year 2000? The “Y2K bug” was a dud, and our computers ...

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If you were alive 25 years ago, you might remember what happened — or didn’t happen — when the calendar flipped from Dec. 31, 1999 to Jan. 1, 2000. For months, seemingly everyone — businesses, cities, ...

Widespread fears about Y2K led to significant preparations by governments and corporations. Concerns included potential power outages, financial disruptions and even catastrophic failures in air ...

For a brief period in the late 1990s, it was one of the busiest categories in book publishing. As the decade wound down, more and more people became agitated about the Y2K bug—also known as the ...

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James P. Pinkerton, who writes a column for Newsday in New York, worked in the White House of President George Bush. E-mail: [email protected] And we thought we’d get through the year 2000 ...

The late 1990s were defined by a number of ridiculous things, but somewhere near the top of the list was the panic that boiled over in 1999 as people prepared for the end of civilization as we knew it ...

The Y2K bug, or the prediction that all computers would fail to operate at the turn of the 21st Century because their processors couldn’t change their internal clocks from 1999 to 2000, possesses a ...

Or Y2K could have the opposite effect, sparking more buying. Execs at Comdex agree on one thing: We're in for a wacky year. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...