Despite magazine articles on the subject from 1970 onward, the majority of programmers and managers only started recognizing Y2K as a looming problem in the mid-1990s, but even then, inertia and …

Nov 28, 2025 · Y2K bug, a problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world at the beginning of the year 2000 (in …

Aug 29, 2025 · Discover the true story of Y2K, the millennium bug. Learn what happened, the preparations taken, and why the feared global computer breakdown never occurred.

A computer flaw, the so-called "Millennium Bug," led to anxiety and the Y2K (Year 2000) scare. When complex computer programs were first written in the 1960s, engineers used a two-digit code for the …

The term "Y2K" is a shorthand way of referring to the Year 2000 problem. The problem is that many computer systems store dates using only the last two digits of the year, which could cause some …

Dec 28, 2024 · Thankfully, the so-called "year 2000 problem" didn't live up to the hype. NPR covered Y2K preparations for several years leading up to the new millennium.

Sep 11, 2019 · The term Year 2000 bug, also known as the millennium bug and abbreviated as Y2K, referred to potential computer problems which might have resulted when dates used in computer …

Dec 31, 2024 · 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 …

Nov 12, 2024 · What Was the Y2K Problem? The Y2K problem stemmed from the common practice in early computer systems of representing years with only the last two digits. For example, the year …

People started fearing that date-related processing would happen incorrectly for dates and times after December 31 1999. It caused concerns that many industries (such as electricity or financial) and …