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.

1, 2000. 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 ...

The city hosted a $500,000 fireworks display on ... The RJ's classifieds, meanwhile, portended a horror show. Y2K provisions were being sold with the advice to "order now" and "avoid last-minute ...

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? The “Y2K bug” was a dud, and our ...