There was this commercial on the radio about Trane heating and cooling units. The ad claimed that the units could use up to 50% less energy than your existing unit. This started me thinking (because ...

For a brief period in the late 1990s, it was one of the busiest categories in book publishing. As the decade wound down, more and more people became agitated about the Y2K bug—also known as the ...

How do you plan to spend New Year’s Eve? Put yourself in the driver’s seat, says Cathy Minehan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Look at it through the eyes of a Y2K pro. It’s Friday ...

County-run 911 emergency response systems risk an immobilizing computer failure on Jan. 1, 2000, because half of the nation’s counties lack plans to deal with the Y2K problem, the National Association ...

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 ...

The threat may not exist at all, but if it does, organizations should not hide it. Instead, they should communicate ...

The world faced a seemingly insurmountable technology challenge in the late 1990s that threatened to disrupt civilization. Addressing this required mobilizing a vast response effort, not unlike what ...

Re “It’s Always the End of the World as We Know It” (Op-Ed, Jan. 1): Denis Dutton makes a compelling case for the triumph of hysteria over actual knowledge in the case of Y2K, but he overreaches in ...

For people over the age of 30, the Y2K panic of 1999 was a real concern. It seems silly now, but for many people a quarter century ago, it was the dawn of an impending global meltdown. The tension ...

For a moment, forget about planes falling from the sky. Forget about power outages and other millennial mayhem caused by the Year 2000 computer glitch. It’s time to think about the personal computer ...

When historians someday dissect the long chain of missteps that allowed the year 2000 computer bug to flourish, they will undoubtedly linger over the tale of a little-known programmer named Bob Bemer.

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] On April 6, something known as the GPS rollover, a cousin to the dreaded Y2K bug, mostly came and went, as businesses and ...