Y2K: The New Year's computer fear that didn't happen
25 years ago on this New Year's Eve, FOX 2 was covering the biggest story of the year: a new millenium and a fear that massive computer malfunctions would disrupt life as we knew it.
ST. LOUIS - 25 years ago on this New Year's Eve, FOX 2 was covering the biggest story of the year: a new millennium and a fear that massive computer malfunctions would disrupt life as we knew it.
Concerns grew leading up to New Year's Eve in 1999 that computer chips wouldn't recognize a change in all four digits of the date, when most were programmed to read the last two numbers only.
We're taking a look back at Y2K, or 2000, and the computer disasters that didn't happen.
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