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

More tales of apocalypse avoided - including in an animal testing lab - and the hard work that made that possible ON CALL Y2K ...

Comment Twenty-five years ago on January 1, despite panic and fear that the world was soon to collapse into chaos, nothing much happened.… Sure, there were issues that hint at the global catastrophe ...

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.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — This is just a reminder to all of you who were around that Y2K was 25 years ago. You’re welcome. Unfortunately for Eli, he’s blocked when the clock strikes midnight as all of our ...

The Y2K bug, or the prediction that all computers would fail to operate at the turn of the 21st Century because their processors couldn’t change their internal clocks from 1999 to 2000, possesses a ...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Call now and get the ultimate Y2K survival kit from becalm.com. SUMMERS: We're talking about the Y2K bug, the computer problem that, depending on who you asked 25 years ago, ...