Y2k: 25 years on from one of the biggest non-events in history – UKTN
Its been 25 years since the tech industry went into meltdown over the Y2k bug. But exactly how serious did the UK think it was going to be?
The Y2K bug, otherwise known as the millennium problem, was the widespread fear that computers would struggle to be function once the dates had changed to the year 2000.
This is because the calendars on computers were programmed using the latter two of the four digits of a year, and so wouldn’t be able to distinguish between 1900 and 2000. The fact it was a leap year intensified those concerns.
While the whole fiasco seems far-fetched now and has since been labelled by many as a “non-event”, it certainly wasn’t at the time….
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