Widespread fears about Y2K led to significant preparations by governments and corporations. Concerns included potential power outages, financial disruptions and even catastrophic failures in air ...

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

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 ...

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

Remember the last weeks of 1999? The air was thick with anticipation and, for many, panic. Here in Central Texas, some people were stocking up on bottled water and canned goods like the end of the ...

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... Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Jan. 1, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 1, 2000, an anxious world held its breath as ...

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 ...