While the rest of the world prepared to celebrate the Millennial year 2000, programmers quickly identified a problem with the ...

Suppose a customer last ordered in 1995 and the current year were 1996. Add 5 to 95 in a non-Y2K compliant system and the result was 00, not 2000. Since 96 was greater than 00, the customer record ...

Behind the scenes, however, companies had spent millions and programmers had worked for years to make systems Y2K-compliant. “The Y2K crisis didn’t happen precisely because people started ...

In Washington, D.C., precautionary measures were taken, but ultimately, no significant problems occurred, leading to debates about the necessity of Y2K compliance efforts. WASHINGTON - Twenty-five ...

Across the 80-acre City Park zoo, zebras will be tucked away in their paddocks, wolves will be counting sheep in their sleep and giraffes will be nestled in their barn. Ulaq and Berit will be sleeping ...

In November 1999, the federal government put a $100 billion price tag on Y2K compliance. Beyond that, District Court officials limited activity for the first two weekdays of 2000, including ...

The cover of Colette Shade’s “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything” is bedazzled with bubbles straight out of VH1’s “Pop Up Video” series from the era. But lest you assume the book is ...

The planners' major concern, they said, is that people will overreact, causing shortages by buying huge amounts of food or gasoline.

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 ...