(WKRN) — The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium ... 2000,” David Hyde, a computer science professor at Vanderbilt University, said. “There was a very real fear that ...

Even when changes could be made, the time it took to test them was taxing on the IT staff. See Y2K anxiety. The problem originated with punch cards that go back to the early 1900s. In order to ...