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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Government officials tried to calm people down. They did their best to explain that everything was going to be just fine. “Planes won’t fall out of the sky,” Portland’s mayor, Vera Katz, assured her ...

when the clock strikes midnight this new year, we want to make sure that when you tuned *** news channel eight, your T. V. Screen doesn't look like this for the past year. We have news channel eight ...

Emergency calls went through, the power stayed on and we didn’t go back into the dark ages. But at this time on New Year’s Eve, 1999, no one knew for sure what was going to happen. The Y2K bug, a line ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) -- In America, where business is the nation's business and fads are fleeting, the commercial opportunities offered by the year 2000 are irresistible. Forget about computer glitches ...

In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small software glitch: Many older computer programs had coded dates using only two ...