As Confetti Rained on Times Square, Y2K Bug Was a No-Show
Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning ...
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Inside RNZ on the night of Y2K
Y2K or the millennium bug was a theory that computers would not know how to interpret the date when the digits clicked over ...
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Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out
It all stemmed from a seemingly small software glitch: Many older computer programs had coded dates using only two numbers for the year. At midnight on Dec. 31, a misinterpretation of "00" in the year ...
Y2K, 25 Years Later: How TV News Exacerbated the Apocalypse That Never Was
In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.
It seems funny now, but 25 years ago Y2K paranoia had many fearing the worst
The so-called "millennium bug" led many to predict a meltdown of critical infrastructure when the calendar changed from 1999 ...
25 years later: Vanderbilt computer science professor looks back at Y2K
The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was ...
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The year 2000--computer compliance : second report. Volume I, Report and proceedings of the Committee / Science and Technology Committee.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology.
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In 1902, sponge divers discovered a 2,000-year-old computer in a shipwreck—and it continues to baffle historians today. Story by Sarah Ng In 1902, sponge divers discovered a 2,000-year-old ...