The Truth About Y2K: What Did and Didn't Happen in the Year 2000
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Y2K refers to a computer glitch identified in some software systems that could have disrupted the transition from the year 1999 to 2000.
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What Was Y2K? – Vapor95
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Y2K Panic - Y2K Oral History - New Year's Eve 20 Years Ago
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Y2K Panic - Y2K Oral History - New Year's Eve 20 Years Ago
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Y2K: People Still Think 1999's Biggest Tech Scare Was A Hoax. It Wasn't.
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The Day the World Didn't End
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Whatever happened to the Y2K computer bug - Tech News
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If you think the millennium bug was a hoax, here comes a history lesson
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The Truth About Y2K: What Did and Didn't Happen in the Year 2000
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The More You F*cking Know: Y2K. Only smart people will read this., by Roxy Wright, ILLUMINATION
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Common Y2K fix a time bomb that goes off in 50 years
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No, Y2K Wasn't a World-Ending Disaster. It Also Wasn't a Silly Hoax. - Christ and Pop Culture