At the turn of the century, with a new millennium dawning, a digital specter loomed over the horizon and haunted the imaginations of people across the globe. It was the Year 2000 Bug, or Y2K for short ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

Reflecting on Y2K, a quarter-century on. Credit: Credit: Stacey Zhu; Lo-So-Ma / E+ / Maryna Terletska / Moment / Anna Efetova / Moment / EyeEm Mobile GmbH / iStock / Getty Images Plus / Evgeniia ...

“Y2K,” a new horror comedy about digital devices turning murderous at the stroke of midnight in the year 2000, opens with the AOL dial-up sound, a video of President Bill Clinton on a computer that ...