These warnings applied not to last week’s CrowdStrike IT outages, but to the year 2000 computer problem (Y2K), when experts ... outages for users of Microsoft Windows, seemed to be a replay ...

A massive IT outage has disrupted air travel, banks, and stores globally, realizing the fears of the Y2K bug, said one ...

Windows is still, by a wide margin ... and all of us are at risk. Y2K was always real; it just took 24 years to arrive. I didn’t add this when talking to the anchors but maybe I should ...

Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.

In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small software glitch: Many older computer programs had coded dates using only ...

This New Year's marks the 25th anniversary of Y2K, the popularized term referring to a widespread computer programming bug feared to wreak havoc when the year changed from 1999 to 2000.

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was), by Colette Shade Now that cultural and political analysts have thoroughly dry-pulped the 1990s, it is time to consider ...