While the people at KCCI weren’t too worried about Y2K, they were ready in case the Millennium Bug bit. Y2K preparations were important to make in 1999. Even if the bug wasn't seen as that big ...

However, observations made of the asteroid on February 19-20 have further decreased its chance of Earth impact to 0.28%.

The year 2000 was going to be very special, for a multitude of reasons. We were entering into a new millennium, a new era, a ...

Common fears of the “millennium bug” or “Y2K glitch” included airplanes falling from the sky, prison cells springing open, widespread power outages and bank balances disappearing overnight.

They feared that key sectors would be adversely affected by the millennium bug, occasioned by a tradition by computing engineers to use two digits for programmes (and omitting 19) when referring ...

The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the ...

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25 years ago the world overcame the Y2K crisis. John Barron looks at how Australia beat the millennium bug, a global panic over fears our computer systems would meltdown when the date hit 1/1/2000.

Twenty five years ago computer programmers were racing to fix the millennium bug amidst fears that it would cause banking systems to crash and planes to fall out of the sky. Much to everyone's ...