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 ...

We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Call now and get the ultimate Y2K survival kit from becalm.com. SUMMERS: We're talking about the Y2K bug, the computer problem that, depending on who you asked 25 years ago, ...

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 ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (CNN) -- When a powerful tornado struck Oklahoma City recently, it caused a breakdown in internal hospital systems, such as elevators and electricity powering critical ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was expected to cause computers to fail and lead to ...

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 ...