It seems funny now, but 25 years ago Y2K paranoia had many fearing the worst
The so-called "millennium bug" led many to predict a meltdown of critical infrastructure when the calendar changed from 1999 to 2000.
How ‘Y2K’ Director Kyle Mooney Made a New Year’s Eve Classic
Kyle Mooney, co-writer, director and star of A24's Y2K, talks about making a New Year's Eve classic and what he watched ...
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Notes on a panic: Y2K's 25th birthday
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 ...
Book Review: ‘Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything,’ by Colette Shade
In a vibrant collection of “essays on the future that never was,” Colette Shade takes a cold look at the cheery promise of ...
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Forget Y2K! Bollywood’s REAL crisis in 1999 was Y3K and that it was just as unfixable – A hilarious throwback
The world in December 1999 had one big question on its mind: “Will everything collapse when the clock strikes midnight on January 1, 2000?” This wasn’t some doomsday prophecy but the ...
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Y2K’ on VOD, a Collection of Millennial References Passing for a Movie
(If you are in search for the “real” story of the Y2K panic, check out the 2024 HBO documentary Time Bug Y2K.) Performance Worth Watching: Mooney plays a white guy with dreadlocks and ...
‘Y2K’ recalls an era when we dreamed of leaving history behind
Colette Shade’s essays offer trenchant commentary on politics and culture from 1997 through 2008.
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It is 25 years since the Y2K panic: Do you remember it?
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 century ago, it was the dawn of an impending global meltdown. The tension ...
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Reflecting on Y2K, 25 years later
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 ...