Nearly 25 years after the year 2000 began without the much-hyped possible computer catastrophe, Y2K is enjoying a resurgence as Americans become nostalgic for the late '90s and early '00s.
Y2K—Rachel Zegler’s horror comedy directed by former Saturday Night Live star Kyle Mooney—is coming soon to digital streaming. Y2K opened in theaters on Dec. 8. The official logline for the ...
This passage has been excerpted from Y2K, Colette Shade’s debut collection of essays about pop culture and politics between ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Worries that Y2K, shorthand for the year 2000, would lead to widespread computer havoc proved manageable, but not without some challenges. The start of the millennium was a simpler question.
People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and... Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were ...
when most were programmed to read the last two numbers only. We’re taking a look back at Y2K, or 2000, and the computer disasters that didn’t happen.
On the set of “Y2K,” co-writer, director and star Kyle Mooney had something of a malfunction himself. “We were staying at a hotel in Jersey and my wife was there, and she texted me something ...
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But the symbolic event also prompted warnings of the potential fallout from the Y2K computer bug, causing businesses and government agencies, including those in Richmond and the state of Virginia ...