Y2K bug was real and could have killed says man who found it — here’s when it could hit again By . Gavin Newsham. Published Oct. 28, 2023, 10:00 a.m. ET.

The Y2K problem is now nearly ancient history. In the 1950s and '60s, computer memory was expensive, and computer professionals were under pressure to save money.

It was the Year 2000 Bug, or Y2K for short, a mysterious and enigmatic glitch threatening to plunge humanity into chaos and potentially the dark ages as the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2000.

Y2K's ending sees humanity overcome the dangers posed by the robot uprising, which could be seen as a parallel of how "The Year 2000 Problem" didn't end up bringing about the end of human society ...

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 billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

“Time Bomb Y2K,” an HBO documentary about the panic related to the calendar switch to 2000 and the pandemonium “experts” warned would ensue, possesses an “Everything old is new again ...

The first 20 minutes of the director Kyle Mooney’s “Y2K” are so densely packed with references to turn-of-the-millennium pop cultural ephemera — AND1 apparel, “That 70s Show,” devil ...

Y2K was born on Monday, June 12, 1995, at 11: 31 p.m. It was delivered in the middle of an otherwise unintelligible e-mail, a contribution to an Internet discussion group of computer geeks explorin… ...

The resurgence of Y2K style has permeated more than just runways and Instagram feeds. We see shades of it everywhere, down to the anxieties that keep us awake at night.