Two decades ago an existential threat brought the world together— the Y2K bug. In the late 1990s, computers were rapidly transforming how the world worked, but an invisible enemy loomed. A computer ...

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As people across the globe prepare to welcome in 2022, Sky News podcast series StoryCast '21 finishes with an episode about how the start of the millennium sparked fears of widespread catastrophe. In ...

Which is why, as midnight neared Down Under, Rob's boss called Sun's Sydney office … then heard the phone line go terrifyingly silent as the clock ticked pas midnight. Rob said that "scared the hell ...

People feared the turn of the year 2000 could see computer systems around the world crashing (Picture: Avalon/Getty Images/Hulton Archive) The devastating IT glitch which has caused chaos across the ...

Experts fear the Y2K-like glitch could spark chaos for millions by resetting calendars on old computer systems on 6 April A TERRIFYING computer bug could crash markets and close ports by wrecking the ...

Rachel Zegler battles a killer Y2K bug in A24’s feeble throwback comedy It begins with a blast from the past – an AOL logo on a Mac screen filled with AIM chat windows belonging to the nerdy Eli ...

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a probe into how the millennium bug will hit real-time and embedded systems in industry. Last week, the government agency announced it was to ...

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