It was an era that spanned two decades, bridging the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries; author Colette ...

Congress holds its first hearing related to Y2K. Eventually, President Clinton has his own, you know, initiative. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BILL CLINTON: This is one of those days that I ...

Simply put, many feared January 1, 2000, would bring mass chaos. Television news contributed to Y2K fears, often running features on survivalists who were unplugging and isolating from society in ...

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Many of us remember, or at least remember hearing about, Y2K. For much of the 1990s, there was widespread concern about how software and systems were programmed to represent years using only the ...

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.

Y2K preparedness conventions also ramped up ... mostly technological glitches that involved dates and record-keeping. In the U.S., the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...