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As she descended into Maryland woods Wednesday with childhood friends, Claire Murrell couldn’t remember much about what her ...

A quarter-century after the world avoided a much-ballyhooed Y2K crisis on New Year’s Eve — a six-digit date format in ...

It has been 25 years since many breathed a collective sigh of relief. Yes, it's been that long since we found out we'd all be ...

The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was ...

In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.

The so-called "millennium bug" led many to predict a meltdown of critical infrastructure when the calendar changed from 1999 ...

The U.S. spent tens of billions of dollars solving the computer glitch, but Y2K also sparked untrue hysteria about planes ...

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 ...

It’s been 25 years since the year 2000 problem sparked anxiety about potential computer issues as the year changed from 1999 ...

This passage has been excerpted from Y2K, Colette Shade’s debut collection of essays about pop culture and politics between ...