While the rest of the world prepared to celebrate the Millennial year 2000, programmers quickly identified a problem with the ...

After all, Y2K is the shorthand way to write “the year 2000.” If the moniker conveys a certain futuristic brevity, that’s somewhat by design—it echoes the influence of the burgeoning ...

Add 5 to 95 in a non-Y2K compliant system and the result was 00, not 2000. Since 96 was greater than 00, the customer record would be deleted. See data aging. Because of the way dates are stored ...

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays ... Those three symbols delineate not just the year 2000, argues the journalist Colette Shade in a lean, nimble and profoundly depressing new book ...