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 ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 1, 2000, an anxious world held its ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, the world argued over the true start date of a millennium, cursed short-sighted computer programmers and waited with bated breath as the calendar switched from a one ...

After a news conference, Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., chairman of Government Management, Information & Technology, examines a chart showing his grades for each agency's progress on the Y2K computer ...

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 ...

In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small software glitch: Many older computer programs had coded dates using only two ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – 25 years ago on this New Year’s ...

"I pray that people don't panic." HBO has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary called Time Bomb Y2K, which HBO will be debuting just in time for this year's New Years right at the end of ...

'IT: Welcome to Derry's trailer for episode 2 and beyond is the stuff of nightmares 'IT: Welcome to Derry' episode 4 trailer teases a horribly familiar shadow Imagine a world so reliant on technology ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- In America, where business is the nation's business and fads are fleeting, the commercial opportunities offered by the year 2000 are irresistible. Forget about computer glitches ...