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 ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Twenty years ago, on the eve of Y2K, the staff of the MetroNews Radio Network and West Virginia Radio Corporation combined to produce a long-form countdown program that ranked the ...
Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.
Editor’s Note: The past year was filled with uncertainty over politics, the economy and the ongoing pandemic. In the face of big changes, people found themselves longing for a different time. CNN’s ...
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 ...
How did you prepare for Y2K? How did you prepare for Y2K? How did you prepare for Y2K? Do you remember how you prepared for Y2K? Buying generators and gas, stocking up on canned food and bottled water ...
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It’s hard to believe that Y2K was 20 years ago. I might just be getting old (which is true), but what’s even more astonishing is how much of the technology we depend on every day wasn’t even around ...
IRVINE, California— Taco Bell is turning back the clock with a nationwide rollout of its Decades Y2K Menu, reviving five fan-favorite items from the early 2000s for a limited time, the fast-food chain ...