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.

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.

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

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

Oh how times have changed. Or have they? Take a glance at local stories from years past.

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 years ago ...

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 ...

This New Year's marks the 25th anniversary of Y2K, the popularized term referring ... upgrades and families prepared for a potential disaster by stockpiling food and other goods.

Congress is allocating more than $100 billion in emergency aid designed to address extensive damage caused by disasters after this week's scramble to find consensus on a government spending bill.

He doesn’t expect any widespread disaster caused by Y2K, but as a precaution all 44 of the department’s firemen will be on call to deal with any potential problems, Broshears said.

Dec. 20 (UPI) --Catastrophic weather claimed the lives of hundreds of people in 2024 as increasingly severe natural disasters ripped across the world indiscriminately. A rash of tornados pounded ...