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

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 ...

Twenty years ago it was feared that when the calendar flipped to Jan. 1, computer systems would fail to cope with the change and malfunction — leading to global chaos. It didn't happen. SCOTT SIMON: ...

Spectators check out the the 'Y2K Bug', a Volkswagon Beetle covered with computer parts, before the start of the 12th Annual ...

Editor’s note: This is part III of our series, “Y2K: The good, the bad, and the crazy.” Read “Y2K, the good,” and “Y2K, the bad,” and then take a moment to share your own Millennium Eve tales. While ...

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 computer ...

A24 on Tuesday morning debuted the first trailer for Y2K, its R-rated disaster comedy starring Jaeden Martell (It films), Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2), which ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, the world waited for computer havoc on New Year's Eve. How the RG and the communities around ...

For millions of apocalyptic believers around the world, the bleaker prophecies of disaster in the aftermath of Y2K computer failure have a thrillingly familiar ring to them: mass panic, government ...

WASHINGTON — In preparing for the feared Y2k computer glitch in the late 1990s, the White House appointed a czar to organize critical industries to combat the problem. Businesses and government worked ...

Two decades after the Y2K computer bug put the globe on high alert, a similar problem has emerged at a San Francisco-based software company. Splunk, which provides organizations with data-sifting ...

A24’s latest film, Y2K, takes us on a fun adventure back in time. For some, this movie will raise deeply felt nostalgic memories, while for others, it might introduce concepts that seem completely ...