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“With Y2K nostalgia trending, we are seeing a lot of products in this style making a strong resurgence.” It comes as another nostalgic item became the department stores’ most popular item in 202 ...

Sure, there were issues that hint at the global catastrophe that the Y2K bug might have been, but most, including The Register rolling over to "year Zero," were worth little more than a chuckle. That ...

Simply put, many feared January 1, 2000, would bring mass chaos. Television news contributed to Y2K fears, often running features on survivalists who were unplugging and isolating from society in ...

It was New Year's Eve, 1999, and anxiety over potential Y2K doomsday scenarios about to be unleashed in the new year was real. Anything relying on automation — from the electrical grid to ...

Don't fret. Stark County has options. The Auricle in downtown Canton will recall the Y2K hysteria of 1999 with hit songs of the era. Krackpots Comedy Club in downtown Massillon has co-headliners.

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 ...

Yes, the year 2000 software problem, known as Y2K, turned out to be a nonevent. That has led to a widely held view that it was a kind of manufactured crisis, a vastly overstated danger inflated by ...

As the new century approached 25 years ago, Y2K swept the nation. It was a real crisis that the U.S. spent tens of billions of dollars solving, but it also sparked untrue hysteria about planes ...

But 25 years ago, several people thought computers would be the end of us. The Year 200 Problem, commonly known as Y2K, was a hypothesis that a computer flaw would have caused major issues when ...

On the set of “Y2K,” co-writer, director and star Kyle Mooney had something of a malfunction himself. “We were staying at a hotel in Jersey and my wife was there, and she texted me something ...

If you search “2000s fashion” or “Y2K fashion” on TikTok, you’ll drum up thousands of videos, some of which mock divisive trends from the time (ahem, pencil-thin eyebrows) while others offer how-to ...