We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...

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 ...

Dec. 28—From Massena, where a duo began a millennium disaster food drive, to Glens Falls, where a company that supplied portable toilets saw a run on rentals, there were some serious preparations 25 ...

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 century ago, it was the dawn of an impending global meltdown. The tension ...

The world faced a seemingly insurmountable technology challenge in the late 1990s that threatened to disrupt civilization. Addressing this required mobilizing a vast response effort, not unlike what ...

Technology and e-government initiatives will play a critical role in homeland security, White House Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Thursday. "You may say homeland security is a Y2K problem ...

The Y2K, or year 2000, problem is a glitch that may cause computers to malfunction Jan. 1. Some computer software was written to recognize years in a two-digit format, such as "99" for 1999. There are ...