It was Y2K, the millennium, or, as some thought, the end of the world as we knew it. The problem was that computers that had been programmed to recognize the year by the last two numbers - as in ...

It's the 25th anniversary of Y2K, when panic about a millennium bug swept the nation. Photos show how we prepared.

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

In the runup to the new millennium, computer-themed April Fool’s gag gifts ranging from “Y2K bugs” to “panic” buttons for keyboards hit the marketplace. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) ...

Can you believe that it has been 25 years since we worried that the technical world might fall apart as we welcomed in the new millennium in the year 2000?

OMG it's Y2K The notion that a computer glitch tied to the date would somehow lead to global unease that occasionally bordered on apocalyptic panic is the sort of thing that likely won’t make ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,138,864-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Y2K Problem What it’s about: The weak sauce that passed for a global catastrophe 20 ...

Mooney, alongside co-writer Evan Winter, crafts a narrative that is at once a love letter to the turn of the millennium and a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked technological advancement.