The term year 2000 problem, also commonly known as the year 2000 bug, Y2K problem, Y2K scare, millennium bug, Y2K bug, Y2K glitch, or Y2K error or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of …

2019年12月26日 · In 1999, Y2K was shorthand for a computer bug that many believed would break the world's electronic systems. They were convinced the bug would prevent online clocks from turning forward to 2000,...

The Y2K bug was a computer flaw, or bug, that may have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond December 31, 1999. The flaw, faced by computer programmers and users all …

2025年3月18日 · Y2K bug, a problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world at the beginning of the year 2000. After over a year of international alarm, few major failures occurred in the transition from December 31, 1999, to January 1, 2000.

2025年1月1日 · It was New Year's Eve, 1999, and anxiety over potential Y2K doomsday scenarios about to be unleashed in the new year was real. Anything relying on automation — from the electrical grid to traffic...

2024年12月31日 · 33 Photos Of The Y2K Panic, When People Feared That Computers Would Fail At The Turn Of The Century

2019年9月11日 · The fear was that when clocks struck midnight on January 1, 2000, affected computer systems, unsure of the year, would fail to operate and cause massive power outages, transportation systems to shut down, and banks to close. Widespread chaos would ensue. Research firm Gartner estimated the cost of Y2K remediation to be $300 - $600 billion.

2019年12月31日 · The so-called Y2K scare emerged over the last few years of the previous century, when technology experts and scientists started pointing out that many modern digital calendars were too reliant on...

2024年12月6日 · Y2K takes inspiration from a real life fear about technology at the turn of the 21st century. Here's how the real Y2K scare compares to A24's film.

2019年10月16日 · After the unceremonious beginning of the year 2000, revelers and preppers alike awoke in a world that was practically the same as the day before. The entire Y2K fiasco quickly faded into memory and was sometimes used as a punchline about overly ambitious doomsday thinking. But was it really so overblown?