It was an era that spanned two decades, bridging the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries; author Colette Shade shares nine things writers should know about Y2K.
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 ...
And just like Madame Zelda said, for many in Kentucky, that ritual will be to stay home. Y2K questions in hand, journalist Ann Bowdan asked palm reader madam Zelda about the future in 1999.
One of the most iconic outfits of the early 2000s was easily the signature Juicy Couture Velour Tracksuits. The matching sets were worn by the decade’s biggest “it” girls, like Paris Hilton, Britney ...
My signatures on *** piece of paper at corporate saying that we are so Jeff Greenwood News channel eight Iowans spent months — even years — preparing for the dreaded Y2K bug.The Millennium Bug ...
Simply put, many feared January 1, 2000, would bring mass chaos. Television news contributed to Y2K fears, often running features on survivalists who were unplugging and isolating from society in ...
Reflecting on Y2K, a quarter-century on. Credit: Credit: Stacey Zhu; Lo-So-Ma / E+ / Maryna Terletska / Moment / Anna Efetova / Moment / EyeEm Mobile GmbH / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Evgeniia ...
Sure, there were issues that hint at the global catastrophe that the Y2K bug might have been, but most, including The Register rolling over to "year Zero," were worth little more than a chuckle. That ...
1, 2000. 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 ...