It was a celebration unlike any other. All over the world and throughout the state, from hour to frantic expectant hour, the arrival of 2000 swept across the planet. There were parties everywhere – a ...
If you were alive 25 years ago, you might remember what happened — or didn’t happen — when the calendar flipped from Dec. 31, 1999 to Jan. 1, 2000. For months, seemingly everyone — businesses, cities, ...
Or Y2K could have the opposite effect, sparking more buying. Execs at Comdex agree on one thing: We're in for a wacky year. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...
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 ...
Can you believe that it has been 25 years since we worried that the technical world might fall apart as we welcomed in the new millennium in the year 2000? The “Y2K bug” was a dud, and our computers ...
when the clock strikes midnight this new year, we want to make sure that when you tuned *** news channel eight, your T. V. Screen doesn't look like this for the past year. We have news channel eight ...
Not only did the city, in the prescient words of Prince, "party like it's 1999," the masses held their collective breath in case computers failed, hospitals collapsed, planes dropped from the sky and ...
Or Y2K could have the opposite effect, sparking more buying. Execs at Comdex agree on one thing: We're in for a wacky year. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...