As such, Y2K ’s story of a Millennium Bug that causes bloody mayhem may still be able to avoid A24’s horror-comedy curse. Sadly, early reactions to Y2K ’s trailer prove this won’t be easy.

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While the impact of the millennium bug might have been minimal in the first days of 2000, that's because an immense amount of work had gone into fixing it ahead of a known deadline, says François ...

Unfortunately, Eli's attempts to get close to his crush Laura (Rachel Zegler) are put on hold when the Y2K bug hits at midnight, turning formerly harmless electronic gadgets into murder machines.

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In 1999, the specter of Y2K, or the millennium bug, caused mass, worldwide anxiety about the risks of power, air travel, and stock market outages.

The Millennium Bug, or “Y2K” happened because early computers saved expensive memory space by only counting the last two digits of the year, meaning many systems were unable to distinguish ...

But as in the unloved 1989 sci-fi film Millennium, this was not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning. S.F.'s loss is Rockridge's gain, and the Millennium that Chef Eric Tucker ...

I was actually working for a water utility company during the Millennium Bug in 2000. Many companies were on large transformation programs to recode a lot of their computers and servers because the ...

They feared that key sectors would be adversely affected by the millennium bug, occasioned by a tradition by computing engineers to use two digits for programmes (and omitting 19) when referring ...

As the Y2K computer bug and new millennium approach, some people are getting nervous. Some are "heading for the hills" while others are stocking their homes in case computer crashes disrupt their ...