Peter de Jager says his legacy is a mixed blessing. "I'll give you an example," he said in a phone interview from his home in ...

Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning ...

Take a look back at the days and months ahead of Jan. 1, 2000, when fears about the Y2K dominated the headlines.

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

Y2K specifically referred to the use of a two-digit number in tracking the current year in computer programming, which could ...

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.

A quarter-century after burying a plastic pipe stuffed with notes and mementos, old friends in Silver Spring discover that ...

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 ...