Y2K bug was real and could have killed says man who found it — here’s when it could hit again By Gavin Newsham Published Oct. 28, 2023, 10:00 a.m. ET ...

The Year 2000 computer problem has become a punchline in recent years, but the CrowdStrike outage shows the joke's on us.

When we worry about Y2K today—and as the new Y2K movie makes clear, we still do—we aren’t worrying about how Y2K threatened to cause the computers to crash then—we’re trying to reassure ...

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.

Here's what we know about the apocalyptic new comedy Y2K starring Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, and Alicia Silverstone.

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 billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

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 billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

With Y2K we had widespread attention on the problem, a shared global imperative to address it, a clear and simple fix, and a fixed deadline to meet. This time around, the challenge is different.