In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.
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In his reporting from 25 years ago, Taylor tamped down Y2K panic and noted how programmers had been working to upgrade the ...
New Year's Eve, FOX 2 was covering the biggest story of the year: a new millenium and a fear that massive computer ...
With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash Comment Twenty-five years ago on January 1, despite ...
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter‘s only daughter has been laying low since her highly-publicized childhood in the White House and ...
For people over the age of 30, the Y2K panic of 1999 was a real concern. It seems silly now, but for many people a quarter ...
The fear was that stored dates used in calculations based on daily or yearly activities – think banking systems, air traffic control systems or power grids – would cause these programs to malfunction.
The end of the 1900s brought fear that a computer glitch might down aircraft, erase bank accounts and even trigger World War ...
When panic gripped the globe on New Year's Eve, 1999, newspaper archives show some Treasure Coast residents equally ...
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 ... taking a look back at Y2K, or 2000, and the computer ...