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 ...

Bill Clinton was President, glowsticks were popular and anyone who received a message through AOL heard, "You've got mail." This New Year's marks the 25th anniversary of Y2K, the popularized term ...

Government officials tried to calm people down. They did their best to explain that everything was going to be just fine. “Planes won’t fall out of the sky,” Portland’s mayor, Vera Katz, assured her ...

Twice bitten: Reduce your risk of year 2000 lawsuitsGarry BarnesY2K, compliance, lawsuits When it comes to the Year 2000 issue, look beyond possible crashing computers and incorrect data. Why? Because ...

Some have likened our emerging computer technology industry to the California Gold Rush, when hundreds of thousands flocked to the Sierra Nevada foothills to seek their fortunes. If you were among the ...

DALLAS A Y2K-type computer bug hit cash registers in 7-Eleven stores this week, causing them to read the new year as 1901 instead of 2001 and inconveniencing customers who wanted to make credit-card ...

For millions of apocalyptic believers around the world, the bleaker prophecies of disaster in the aftermath of Y2K computer failure have a thrillingly familiar ring to them: mass panic, government ...

Ninety-two percent of the federal government's most critical systems are Y2K compliant, reported John A. Koskinen, President Clinton's advisor on Year 2000 computer issues, in his latest update last ...

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 ...

While the world frets over the possible consequences of the Y2K computer problem, Marlene Rosati is using it as a marketing advantage. Rosati, marketing communications manager at CenterForce ...