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 ...

Dec. 28—From Massena, where a duo began a millennium disaster food drive, to Glens Falls, where a company that supplied portable toilets saw a run on rentals, there were some serious preparations 25 ...

Anyone who has had even the briefest encounter with any media during the past year has learned that the world as we know it is on the brink of radical change because of what has been called the ...

In a new twist on Y2K readiness, the Arlington Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, called on the media Monday to help fix the problem. But they weren’t talking about the computer problem; rather ...

For a brief period in the late 1990s, it was one of the busiest categories in book publishing. As the decade wound down, more and more people became agitated about the Y2K bug—also known as the ...

The three-part series detailing the decade premieres July 6. By Philiana Ng As the seconds ticked down Dec. 31, 1999 (“Millennium Eve” as rapper/actor Ice Cube calls it), the Y2K problem had a good ...

Remember the Y2K bug that threatened computer programs to go crazy on January 1, 2000? A similar timestamp recognition problem is affecting Splunk platform instances neglected by their administrators ...

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 ...

Since entering the public consciousness a few years ago, the Y2K problem has become both a buzzword and a bugaboo, an instant punchline and a looming problem of unspecified proportions. No one knows ...

The Y2K bug reshaped the technology industry. The sheer scale of the problem, coupled with the fact that the entire world was up against a hard and inflexible deadline, meant that organizations around ...

Kyle Mooney’s new Y2K movie, which opens in theaters this weekend, asks the question: What would have happened if Y2K was, in fact, a technological disaster? Anyone over the age of 30 no doubt ...