Can you believe that it has been 25 years since we worried that the technical world might fall apart as we welcomed in the new millennium in the year 2000? The “Y2K bug” was a dud, and our computers ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 1, 2000, an anxious world held its breath as computers silently switched to the year 2000, but the dreaded “Y2K ...
Widespread fears about Y2K led to significant preparations by governments and corporations. Concerns included potential power outages, financial disruptions and even catastrophic failures in air ...
If you were alive 25 years ago, you might remember what happened — or didn’t happen — when the calendar flipped from Dec. 31, 1999 to Jan. 1, 2000. For months, seemingly everyone — businesses, cities, ...
For a brief period in the late 1990s, it was one of the busiest categories in book publishing. As the decade wound down, more and more people became agitated about the Y2K bug—also known as the ...
Twenty years ago, people completely lost their shizzle. Why? Because Y2K was just around the corner. To backtrack: On January 1, 2000, the Y2K bug was predicted to dismantle our functioning society as ...
20 years ago the world feared the Y2K bug. The Y2K bug theory wend like this: Because early computer software used only the last two digits in a year, the machines will read the last “00” in 2000 on ...
“For The Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.” Luke 17 “I’m getting out of here – too many religion freaks.” – Bud007, on the ...