Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On the 25th anniversary of the Y2K scare, the eponymous film pokes fun at internet disasters. But real disruptions may loom in the future. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To The ...

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 ...

Ten years ago this week, the much-hyped Y2K crisis — which had come in with a long, sustained roar — went out with a whimper. In the years and months leading up to the new millennium, IT organizations ...

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 ...