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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spectators check out the the 'Y2K Bug', a Volkswagon Beetle covered with computer parts, before the start of the 12th Annual Art ...

The man who found the flaw on computer code has a warning for the year it will be a danger again. BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images Peter de Jager had New Year’s Eve 1999 all mapped out. The ...

The fallout shelter was ready. The batteries were in place, candles were prepped, food was stocked and the sauced had been jarred — as my grandma prepped for impending doom. Fear gripped my ...

Twenty years ago, people completely lost their shizzle. Why? Because Y2K was just around the corner. To backtrack: On January 1, 2000, the Y2K bug was predicted to dismantle our functioning society as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Cupo, a systems operator for Public Service Electric and Gas Company, uses a special red phone to talk via radio to PSE&G staffers in the field, during a simulated Y2K drill at company ...