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The Y2K issue was a major topic of discussion in the late 1990s and as such showed up in much popular media. A number of "Y2K disaster" books were published such as Deadline Y2K by Mark Joseph. Movies such as Y2K: Year to Kill capitalized on the currency of Y2K, as did numerous TV shows, comic strips, and computer games.
After a news conference, Rep. Stephen Horn, R-Calif., chairman of Government Management, Information & Technology, examines a chart showing his grades for each agency's progress on the Y2K ...
Images of Y2K's bygone era show everything from people wearing gas masks to packing grocery carts full of necessities including water and toilet paper. Here are photos from USA TODAY's achieve of ...
The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand"). [4] [5] The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or ...
Time Bomb Y2K is a 2023 American documentary film, directed by Marley McDonald and Brian Becker. An all-archival film, it explores the Year 2000 problem , and the mass hysteria surrounding it. It had its world premiere at True/False Film Festival on March 3, 2023, and was released on December 30, 2023, by HBO .
“Time Bomb Y2K,” an HBO documentary about the panic related to the calendar switch to 2000 and the pandemonium “experts” warned would ensue, possesses an “Everything old is new again ...
Y2K Turbine Superbike, a turbine-powered motorcycle launched by MTT in 2000; Y2K, a Swedish designation for the DSB Class MF or IC3, a Danish-built train set; YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, an RPG video game by Ackk Studios; Y2K fashion, a design style, fashion style, and aesthetic that was popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s
The upshot though, is that today, Y2K is remembered as a panic—an irrational hysteria that gripped the world. There are still tons of questions about why today’s outage was so potent and ...