As we trudge ahead into 2025, it’s hard to believe it’s been 25 years since we worried about Y2K – the disaster than never came.

The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was ...

Twenty-five years ago, volunteer operators were at the dials of their machines at 40 hospitals across Maine, ready to help if a programming bug crashed computers.

In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.

Y2K wasn’t just tedious conspiracy theorists wittering on - it was a real fear. Governments and companies worldwide spent an estimated $500 billion preparing computer systems for the date change. As ...

New Year's Eve, FOX 2 was covering the biggest story of the year: a new millenium and a fear that massive computer ...

As the clock ticked toward midnight on December 31, 1999, the world held its breath. Would the dreaded Y2K bug bring global ...

A quarter century ago, as 1999 neared 2000, Y2K was all the buzz. A look back at how The Tennessean covered the event.

One of the biggest parts of the Christmas holiday is gathering with loved ones to watch a holiday movie together. When it ...

In his reporting from 25 years ago, Taylor tamped down Y2K panic and noted how programmers had been working to upgrade the ...

The idea that computers around the world could fail at midnight on December 31, 1999 put many on alert. In the end, not much went wrong.

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype ...