But this was the scene we all prepared for IRL on New Year's Eve 24 years ago, as the clocks on our computers struck midnight ...

Read More: Doomsday Clock Says Humanity Is as Close as Ever to Destruction But at the same time, public interest intensified. Case in point, TIME’s Jan. 18, 1999, cover story on Y2K warned of ...

And just like Madame Zelda said, for many in Kentucky, that ritual will be to stay home. Y2K questions in hand, journalist Ann Bowdan asked palm reader madam Zelda about the future in 1999.

SUMMERS: We're talking about the Y2K bug, the computer problem that ... Computer World which has the attention-grabbing title of "Doomsday 2000." And in focusing their attention to this issue ...

Hollywood got into it too in '99, releasing two disaster films — a TV movie and a straight-to-video production — that were both called Y2K. The TIME cover with the doomsday prepper and his ...

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 ...

which led people to stock up on doomsday supplies. Peter de Jager — a former computer programmer and outspoken whistleblower about the potential issues of Y2K — joins host Robin Young to ...

Starring Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler, and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst, "Y2K" premiered earlier this year at SXSW and is set to be released by A24. Remember the paranoia that spread ...

A24 has released the official trailer for the apocalyptic comedy “Y2K,” starring Jaeden Martell, Rachel Zegler and Julian Dennison. Per the official logline: “On the last night of 1999 ...

Nearly 25 years after the year 2000 began without the much-hyped possible computer catastrophe, Y2K is enjoying a resurgence as Americans become nostalgic for the late '90s and early '00s.