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

SUMMERS: We're talking about the Y2K bug, the computer problem that ... and household appliances going ballistic... (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE SIMPSONS") YEARDLEY SMITH: (As Lisa Simpson ...

Here is a look back, 25 years later, at Y2K and how the U.S. transitioned into the new millennium: Also known as "the millennium bug," Y2K stood for the Year 2000 bug and encompassed all the ways ...

For example, some of A24's horror releases from this year, like MaXXXine and I Saw the TV Glow, are already streaming ... battling to survive as the Y2K bug triggers a global technological ...

For Becker, realizing he hadn’t heard about Y2K “led to further research and realizing it was on TV essentially every night for two years,” he told Filmmaker Magazine. Anxiety turned to ...

The Clinton administration said that preparing the U.S. for Y2K was probably "the single largest technology management challenge in history." The bug threatened a cascade of potential disruptions ...

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The so-called Y2K “millennium bug” many people predicted led to endless doomsday hype, a bug we were told would affect computers, computerized electronics, and anything that relied on them to ...

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.