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  1. The year 2000 problem [1], or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. Computer systems' inability to distinguish dates ...

  2. May 31, 2024 · Y2K was a widespread programming error that could have caused chaos at the turn of the millennium. Learn how the problem was identified, fixed and avoided, and what were the economic and social implications of the Y2K scare.

  3. Jun 5, 2024 · Y2K bug, a problem in the coding of computerized systems that was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world at the beginning of the year 2000 (in metric measurements, k stands for 1,000). After more than a year of international alarm, feverish preparations, and programming corrections, few major failures ...

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  4. May 16, 2020 · Learn what the Y2K bug was, how it threatened to disrupt the world on January 1, 2000, and how it was fixed. Find out why some systems still use two-digit years and what happened after the millennium change.

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  5. Y2K was the term for the potential computer problems that could have occurred when dates changed from 1999 to 2000. Learn about the causes, effects, and solutions of the Y2K bug, and see related objects and media from the Smithsonian collection.

  6. Dec 16, 2020 · Unlock the rest here. (CNN) Two decades ago an existential threat brought the world together— the Y2K bug. In the late 1990s, computers were rapidly transforming how the world worked, but an ...

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  8. Dec 30, 2019 · The term Y2K had become shorthand for a problem stemming from the clash of the upcoming Year 2000 and the two-digit year format utilized by early coders to minimize use of computer memory, then an ...

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