The so-called "millennium bug" led many to predict a meltdown of critical infrastructure when the calendar changed from 1999 to 2000.

Colette Shade’s essays offer trenchant commentary on politics and culture from 1997 through 2008.

"We're still here: World celebrates, Y2K 'okay'" a Tennessean headline declared ... Faith Hill and other country music stars at the Gaylord Entertainment Center (now Bridgestone Arena).

and the music industry followed suit. An anonymous producer summed it up with a mix of frustration and wit: "The world is panicking about Y2K, but here in Bollywood, we’ve got Y3K. Today ...

Reflecting on Y2K, a quarter-century on. Credit: Credit: Stacey Zhu; Lo-So-Ma / E+ / Maryna Terletska / Moment / Anna Efetova / Moment / EyeEm Mobile GmbH / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Evgeniia ...

But 25 years ago, several people thought computers would be the end of us. The Year 200 Problem, commonly known as Y2K, was a hypothesis that a computer flaw would have caused major issues when ...

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 inflated by ...