Y2K, 25 Years Later: How TV News Exacerbated the ... - TV Insider
1 day ago · As the pivotal Y2K moment drew closer, TV news divisions devoted dozens of hours of airtime to New Year’s Eve. CNN planned 100 consecutive hours of coverage, while MSNBC slated a less-intense 30 ...
Inside the Y2K Crisis That Never Was, 25 Years Later
2 days ago · The Times took the year 2000 software problem seriously too. From 1998 through the first few days of 2000, the newspaper published nearly 140 stories about Y2K, based on a count of articles in The ...
It is 25 years since the Y2K panic: Do you remember it?
2 days ago · 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 ...
Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking …
3 days ago · Computer specialist and grassroots organizer Paloma O’Riley compared the scale and urgency of Y2K prep to telling somebody to change out a rivet on the Golden Gate Bridge. Changing out just one rivet is simple, but “if you suddenly tell this person he now has to change out all the rivets on the bridge and he has only 24 hours to do it in ...
Y2K: 4 things people thought would happen on New Year’s 25 …
2 days ago · The Brief. Widespread fears about Y2K led to significant preparations by governments and corporations. Concerns included potential power outages, financial disruptions and even catastrophic ...
It seems funny now, but 25 years ago Y2K paranoia had many ... - CBC.ca
1 day ago · Worried about dire Y2K predictions, Vancouverites stock up ahead of Jan. 1, 2000 As a CBC headline put it on Jan. 3, 2000, Y2K A-OK in Canada . It was OK in the rest of the world as well.
Y2K: The New Year’s computer fear that didn’t happen | FOX 2
1 day ago · 25 years ago on this New Year’s Eve, FOX 2 was covering the biggest story of the year: a new millenium and a fear that massive computer malfunctions would disrupt life as we knew it.
What Is Y2K — And Why Were People So Afraid Of It? - All That's ...
2 days ago · A headline from the Weekly World News spreading fears about Y2K. Weekly World News. 7 of 34. A "Y2K Headquarters" set up with supplies for people to buy before the "end of times." Reddit. 8 of 34. A computer's date glitching because of …
25 years since Y2K: Memories of mass hysteria on ... - Treasure Coast News
2 days ago · The United States wasn’t impermeable to the mania, with 21% of Americans reporting to have stocked up on food in preparation for Y2K, according to a Gallup Poll taken in August 1999.
The Y2K Story: Exclusive Series - CNN
By 1999 computers had transformed everyday life around the world, but an invisible digital enemy called Y2K threatened to bring it all down. Would the electrical grid collapse? Would planes fall...
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