In fact, many have argued that the real-life spread of anxiety and fear over the Y2K bug was overblown. Others applauded the ...

Y2K’s title refers to the infamous Millennium Bug, a theory that posited the world’s electronics would all malfunction en masse when the clock struck twelve on New Year’s Eve 1999.

At the end of 1999, there was anxiety about a potential computer glitch known as Y2K. Some thought the world would crumble, including some who waited out the apocalypse in an old house in the woods.