Reflecting on the actual Y2K is a reminder that computing’s real risks have less to do with murderous robots—and far more to ...

Fears of the Y2K or "millenium bug" computer glitch pervaded 1999, as illustrated by this partial headline from the Dec. 17, ...

Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.

But it doesn’t seem feasible, so they just hit the video store (hey, remember video stores?) to rent a movie and then the ...

A beacon of hope and grape juice in a bunker were featured as, 25 years ago, RNZ nervously ticked over from 1999 to 2000.

We’re closing in on the silver anniversary of one of the odder moments in recent human history: Y2K. In the years leading up ...

At the end of 1999, there was anxiety about a potential computer glitch known as Y2K. Some thought the world would crumble, including some who waited out the apocalypse in an old house in the woods.

For all of us a certain age – you know who you are – it has been 25 years ago since a world meltdown was predicted because of changing of computer clocks from 1999 to 2000. Y2K, geek shorthand for ...

In 1999, as many people were bracing for the end of the world, Las Vegas threw a New Year’s Eve party. It did not go well.

And just like Madame Zelda said, for many in Kentucky, that ritual will be to stay home. Y2K questions in hand, journalist Ann Bowdan asked palm reader madam Zelda about the future in 1999.

In his directorial debut, Kyle Mooney helms Y2K, a disaster comedy horror film that fuses turn-of-the-century paranoia with a ...

Sept. 9, 1998. Credit - Scott J. Ferrell—Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images Reflecting on the actual Y2K is a reminder that computing’s real risks have less to do with murderous robots—and ...