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 ...

despite panic and fear that the world was soon to collapse into chaos, nothing much happened.… Sure, there were issues that hint at the global catastrophe that the Y2K bug might have been ...

“An abject apology is due for spreading all the Y2K panic that caused at least some people to expect the worst when, in fact, absolutely nothing happened,” that reader wrote. “Both local and ...

At midnight on Dec. 31, a misinterpretation of "00" in the year 2000 might cause widespread errors leading to mass panic. The Clinton administration said that preparing the U.S. for Y2K was ...

While the rest of the world prepared to celebrate the Millennial year 2000, programmers quickly identified a problem with the ...