Y2K bug: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: BBC News - How the UK coped with the millennium bug 15 years ago. Oct 10, 2026
Add new Web site: CNN Business - The Year 2000 Problem. Jun 02, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - Y2K: Looking back on the bug that wasn't. Mar 12, 2026
Add new Web site: The University of Queensland - Risk and Sustainable Management Group - The Y2K scare: causes, costs and cures (PDF). Sep 04, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC News - How the UK coped with the millennium bug 15 years ago. Jul 12, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Cambridge - Department of Computer Science and Technology - The Millennium Bug – Reasons not to Panic (PDF). May 14, 2025
Add new Web site: ACM Digital Library - The Y2K Problem: Technological Risk and Professional Responsibility (PDF). Mar 18, 2025
Add new Web site: IMF eLibrary - Y2K problem: Developing countries could be vulnerable to disruption caused by �millennium bug�. Feb 05, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Distributing Liability - The legal and political battles of Y2K (PDF). Sep 23, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - The millennium bug was real ? and 20 years later we face the same threats. May 22, 2024
Add new Web site: The Washington Post - The lessons of Y2K, 20 years later. Apr 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Social and ethical aspects of the Y2K problem. Oct 13, 2023
Add new Web site: Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Y2K. Jun 22, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Y2K: The moment of truth. May 11, 2023
Add new Web site: Investopedia - The Truth About Y2K: What Did and Didn't Happen in the Year 2000. Feb 03, 2023
Added cross-references. May 18, 2020
Corrected display issue. Jul 18, 2018
Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - The Y2K Problem. Feb 21, 2018
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Y2K bug. Jan 30, 2018
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Y2K Bug. Jan 29, 2014
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - The Y2K Bug. May 18, 2012
Add new Web site: h2g2 - Y2K bug. May 18, 2012
Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Science - Year 2000 problem. May 18, 2012
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Dec 16, 2011
New article added. Mar 13, 2009
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