Is this the ’50s or 1999? Huey Lewis famously asked that question in his song from the near end of the 20th century. And what a time to be alive, that was. From boy bands to AOL Instant Messenger, SNL ...

We were warned that our embrace of computer technology would lead to disaster. By incorporating computers into ever more areas of our lives, we were told, we had created a scenario in which a mundane ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, the world argued over the true start date of a millennium, cursed short-sighted computer programmers and waited with bated breath as the calendar switched from a one ...

A computer glitch makes electronics go haywire in this zany and nostalgic horror-comedy from the comedian Kyle Mooney. By Calum Marsh When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

On the 25th anniversary of the Y2K scare, the eponymous film pokes fun at internet disasters. But real disruptions may loom in the future. This is an article from our newsletter “Science Goes To The ...

As a year ends, HBO’s eerily appropriate documentary “Time Bomb Y2K,” Saturday at 10 and streaming on MAX, looks back at the dawn of the 21st century when a potential technological disaster threatened ...