Recording Y2K News Since Late 1998
[Y2K] Y2K Digest -- Year 2000 Happenings
Y2K Digest -- Prior to Year 2000 		[Y2K]
Y2K has finally happened and from a computer perspective we rolled over into Year 2000 without too many serious problems. But with respect to computing, the Y2K defect could still cause problems from time-to-time. The Y2K Digest records these post-Y2K news items (Y2K++).

   Current Items of Interest
  

The Y2K Digest is Being Archived The Y2K Digest has been fun, but it is time to send it to the archives. I started this resource late 1998 and posted to it almost every week for about 15 months. For future Y2K happenings I want to re-direct you to Y2K Mistakes located at http://goto/y2kmistakes. [11 Feb 2000, top]
NSA Computers Go Down... From Yahoo::News comes a report that National Security Agency computer systems experienced an information blackout. The computers took thousands of man-hours and $1.5 million to fix. [Thanks, Marc, for this link.] [04 Feb 2000, top]
Russia has Email Problems MOSCOW, Jan 13, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) The Kremlin press office's computer communication system has been paralyzed by the millennium bug, a spokesman for the Russian presidency revealed Wednesday.
"It is not possible to send E-mails from our press service because of the year 2000 bug problem. The problem should be sorted out by the end of the month," the spokesman told AFP.
[28 Jan 2000, top]
What are They Saying Now? Prior to Y2K, we posted numerous links to articles and websites by Peter De Jager -- whom many consider the father of Y2K, software engineering guru Ed Yourdon, world famous economist Ed Yardeni, and Y2K alarmist Gary North. Here are some links to what these Y2K experts are saying now. [22 Jan 2000, top]
PBS Millennium 2000 In the early morning hours of December 31, 1999, PBS embarked on a 25-hour non-stop salute to the new millennium. With over 55 broadcast partner countries, PBS Millennium 2000 (M2K) brings you live festivities from around the world -- as the hour strikes midnight and the new era begins. PBS Millennium 2000 [31 Dec 1999, top]

Author: G.D.Thurman [thurmunit@inficad.com]
Last Modified: Thursday, 19-Aug-2004 16:21:09 MST

Happy Year 2000