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 ...

Yes, the year 2000 software problem, known as Y2K, turned out to be a nonevent. That has led to a widely held view that it was a kind of manufactured crisis, a vastly overstated danger inflated by ...

But 25 years ago, several people thought computers would be the end of us. The Year 200 Problem, commonly known as Y2K, was a hypothesis that a computer flaw would have caused major issues when ...

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 ...

Many others simply celebrated. A quarter century ago, as 1999 neared 2000, Y2K was all the buzz. Local, state and federal officials all predicted a smooth transition. Area disaster officials said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

when most were programmed to read the last two numbers only. We’re taking a look back at Y2K, or 2000, and the computer disasters that didn’t happen.

This wasn’t some doomsday prophecy but the infamous Y2K bug - a coding shortcut gone horribly wrong. You see, back in the day, programmers saved precious computer memory by using two digits to ...

Here are just a few looks at the tech aesthetics of the 90’s and Y2K eras. (Click to expand images.) The Nokia 252 quickly became one of the most recognizable pre-Y2K cellphones after its ...

Y2K bug — meaning the possible inability of computers to handle the year’s new zeros. Claire was pretty sure her 10-year-old self hadn’t been worried about any of that. She remembered the ...