Reflecting on Y2K, a quarter-century on. Credit: Credit: Stacey Zhu; Lo-So-Ma / E+ / Maryna Terletska / Moment / Anna Efetova / Moment / EyeEm Mobile GmbH / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Evgeniia ...

Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning reflects on a crisis that never was. By Steve Lohr Steve Lohr is a New ...

DALLAS — Today, we couldn't live without computers. Many of you are probably reading this from a smartphone or laptop! But 25 years ago, several people thought computers would be the end of us.

Some thought the world was going to end. Others worried about a catastrophic technology collapse. Tennesseans stockpiled water, food and other emergency supplies. Many others simply celebrated.

As the new century approached 25 years ago, Y2K swept the nation. It was a real crisis that the U.S. spent tens of billions of dollars solving, but it also sparked untrue hysteria about planes ...

On the set of “Y2K,” co-writer, director and star Kyle Mooney had something of a malfunction himself. “We were staying at a hotel in Jersey and my wife was there, and she texted me something ...

It was New Year's Eve, 1999, and anxiety over potential Y2K doomsday scenarios about to be unleashed in the new year was real. Anything relying on automation — from the electrical grid to ...

ST. LOUIS – 25 years ago on this New Year’s Eve, FOX 2 was covering the biggest story of the year: a new millennium and a fear that massive computer malfunctions would disrupt life as we knew it.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was expected to cause computers to fail and lead ...

The world in December 1999 had one big question on its mind: “Will everything collapse when the clock strikes midnight on January 1, 2000?” This wasn’t some doomsday prophecy but the ...

There was a time when the phones in our pockets didn’t look nearly identical to one another. Before the iPhone ushered in an age of rectangular, monotone devices, cellphones came in all shapes ...

The U.S. spent tens of billions of dollars solving the computer glitch, but Y2K also sparked untrue hysteria about planes crashing and electrical... Reflecting on Y2K, 25 years later As the new ...