We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...

Dec. 28—From Massena, where a duo began a millennium disaster food drive, to Glens Falls, where a company that supplied portable toilets saw a run on rentals, there were some serious preparations 25 ...

Anyone who has had even the briefest encounter with any media during the past year has learned that the world as we know it is on the brink of radical change because of what has been called the ...

In a new twist on Y2K readiness, the Arlington Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, called on the media Monday to help fix the problem. But they weren’t talking about the computer problem; rather ...

More tales of apocalypse avoided - including in an animal testing lab - and the hard work that made that possible ON CALL Y2K ...

For a brief period in the late 1990s, it was one of the busiest categories in book publishing. As the decade wound down, more and more people became agitated about the Y2K bug—also known as the ...

The three-part series detailing the decade premieres July 6. By Philiana Ng As the seconds ticked down Dec. 31, 1999 (“Millennium Eve” as rapper/actor Ice Cube calls it), the Y2K problem had a good ...

Remember the Y2K bug that threatened computer programs to go crazy on January 1, 2000? A similar timestamp recognition problem is affecting Splunk platform instances neglected by their administrators ...

On the 25th anniversary of the Y2K scare, the eponymous film pokes fun at internet disasters. But real disruptions may loom in the future. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To The ...

Ten years ago this week, the much-hyped Y2K crisis — which had come in with a long, sustained roar — went out with a whimper. In the years and months leading up to the new millennium, IT organizations ...

The Y2K bug reshaped the technology industry. The sheer scale of the problem, coupled with the fact that the entire world was up against a hard and inflexible deadline, meant that organizations around ...