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.

NPR covered Y2K preparations for several years leading up to the new millennium. Here's a snapshot of how people coped, as told to NPR Network reporters. Infrastructure systems braced for the worst ...

Shade argues that the Y2K era began in 1997, with the internet bubble, and extended to the housing crisis in 2008; a relevant distinction, she contends, because Sept. 11, 2001, is often seen as ...

If you want to sound like a true Internet subculture connoisseur, it’s worth brushing up on the difference between the Y2K and McBling aesthetics. What are the origins of the Y2K aesthetic? At ...

The Y2K problem is now nearly ancient history. In the 1950s and '60s, computer memory was expensive, and computer professionals were under pressure to save money.

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People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was), by Colette Shade Now that cultural and political analysts have thoroughly dry-pulped the 1990s, it is time to consider ...

Shade argues that the Y2K era began in 1997, with the internet bubble, and extended to the housing crisis in 2008; a relevant distinction, she contends, because Sept. 11, 2001, is often seen as ...