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

Simply put, many feared January 1, 2000, would bring mass chaos. Television news contributed to Y2K fears, often running features on survivalists who were unplugging and isolating from society in ...

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 ...

In his reporting from 25 years ago, Taylor tamped down Y2K panic and noted how programmers had been working to upgrade the ...

Kyle Mooney, co-writer, director and star of A24's Y2K, talks about making a New Year's Eve classic and what he watched ...

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

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 ...

The Khans didn’t just survive the so-called Y3K - they flourished. As the new millennium unfolded, they continued to dominate, adapt, and redefine stardom. But the concerns raised in December 1999 ...

“Reporters didn’t know if it was real or not.” Television news contributed to Y2K fears, often running features on survivalists who were unplugging and isolating from society in the run-up to the new ...

Mostly forgotten now is that there was a minor dry run for Y2K a few months prior to the real thing. "We didn’t fear the new year so much because there was a big test and that was 9/9/99 ...