We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...

The man who found the flaw on computer code has a warning for the year it will be a danger again. BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images Peter de Jager had New Year’s Eve 1999 all mapped out. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 28—From Massena, where a duo began a millennium disaster food drive, to Glens Falls, where a company that supplied portable ...

Explore the Y2K problem, a programming flaw that risked global chaos as the year 2000 approached, but ultimately caused minimal disruption.

After a news conference, Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., chairman of Government Management, Information & Technology, examines a chart showing his grades for each agency's progress on the Y2K computer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reflecting on the actual Y2K is a reminder that computing’s real risks have less to do with murderous robots—and far more to do ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was expected to cause computers to fail and lead to ...

Nearly 25 years after the year 2000 began without the much-hyped possible computer catastrophe, Y2K is enjoying a resurgence ...

WASHINGTON — In preparing for the feared Y2k computer glitch in the late 1990s, the White House appointed a czar to organize critical industries to combat the problem. Businesses and government worked ...

Editor’s note: This is part III of our series, “Y2K: The good, the bad, and the crazy.” Read “Y2K, the good,” and “Y2K, the bad,” and then take a moment to share your own Millennium Eve tales. While ...