My signatures on *** piece of paper at corporate saying that we are so Jeff Greenwood News channel eight Iowans spent months — even years — preparing for the dreaded Y2K bug.The Millennium Bug ...

Yes, the year 2000 software problem, known as Y2K, turned out to be a nonevent. That has led to a widely held view that it was a kind of manufactured crisis, a vastly overstated danger inflated by ...

Yes, it's been that long since we found out we'd all be OK on Y2K. There was a lot of concern leading up to the first day of 2000. We're taking a look back. "I'm pretty much ready, including ...

Simply put, many feared January 1, 2000, would bring mass chaos. Television news contributed to Y2K fears, often running features on survivalists who were unplugging and isolating from society in ...

Many others simply celebrated. A quarter century ago, as 1999 neared 2000, Y2K was all the buzz. Local, state and federal officials all predicted a smooth transition. Area disaster officials said ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was expected to cause computers to fail and lead ...

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 after years and... Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were ...

On the set of “Y2K,” co-writer, director and star Kyle Mooney had something of a malfunction himself. “We were staying at a hotel in Jersey and my wife was there, and she texted me something ...

In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small software glitch: Many older computer programs had coded dates using only ...

when most were programmed to read the last two numbers only. We’re taking a look back at Y2K, or 2000, and the computer disasters that didn’t happen.

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Worries that Y2K, shorthand for the year 2000, would lead to widespread computer havoc proved manageable, but not without some challenges. The start of the millennium was a simpler question.