The fear was that stored dates used in calculations based on daily or yearly activities – think banking systems, air traffic control systems or power grids – would cause these programs to malfunction.

With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash Comment Twenty-five years ago on January 1, despite ...

In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.

Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning ...

Twenty-five years ago, while the world was waiting on edge, the potential Y2K crisis came and went without any major failures ...

A quarter-century after burying a plastic pipe stuffed with notes and mementos, old friends in Silver Spring discover that ...

It’s not clear how long it will take to fix the problem, but in the meantime deputies and dispatchers must use radios instead ...

For people over the age of 30, the Y2K panic of 1999 was a real concern. It seems silly now, but for many people a quarter ...

Kyle Mooney, co-writer, director and star of A24's Y2K, talks about making a New Year's Eve classic and what he watched ...

From JNCO jeans to mini skirts, this Y2K clothing store recycles early 2000s fashion at pop-ups in Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Angelina Jolie is embracing a fresh start in the new year with a dramatic hair transformation. The Maria actress closed out ...

Take a look back at the days and months ahead of Jan. 1, 2000, when fears about the Y2K dominated the headlines.