Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reflecting on the actual Y2K is a reminder that computing’s real risks have less to do with murderous robots—and far more to do ...

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.

Y2K, a comedy film directed by Kyle Mooney of Saturday Night Live fame, encapsulates multiple teens’ coming-of-age stories in the setting of a newly post-apocalyptic world. In Y2K, this disaster is ...

Widespread fears about Y2K led to significant preparations by governments and corporations. Concerns included potential power outages, financial disruptions and even catastrophic failures in air ...

While some are embracing the 2025 new year with a sense of uncertainty, it’s worth looking back to another era when the world watched anxiously for the year to come: New Year's Eve, 1999. This New ...

Obviously, Y2K takes inspiration from the real-life fears surrounding the Y2K bug. Directed by Kyle Mooney, Y2K takes place on New Year's Eve at the turn of the millennium. Y2K's main characters are ...

Can you believe that it has been 25 years since we worried that the technical world might fall apart as we welcomed in the new millennium in the year 2000? The “Y2K bug” was a dud, and our computers ...

We're closing in on the silver anniversary of one of the odder moments in recent human history: Y2K. In the years leading up to Jan. 1, 2000, there had been long-standing concern that the increasing ...