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.
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Comment Twenty-five years ago on January 1, despite panic and fear that the world was soon to collapse into chaos, nothing ...
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Happy New Year and welcome to 2025. It's been 25 years since the turn of the millennium when we were warned that our computer ...
The start of the new year is the traditional time to repent the past and make lofty promises and set unreasonable goals for the future. So to help them out, and point them toward a better 2025, here ...
The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was ...
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In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.
On New Year's 25 years ago, there was concern over a potential computer problem labeled "Y2K." The potential problem: Computers didn't use four numbers for the year. Instead, they used two numbers. So ...
The so-called "millennium bug" led many to predict a meltdown of critical infrastructure when the calendar changed from 1999 ...