The "Year 2000 Problem," otherwise known as the Y2K bug, was a major source of anxiety at the turn of the 21st century and serves as the inspiration for the more outlandish Y2K.

How households prepared One of the biggest Y2K problems facing home users was having older software programs on their PC that weren’t created with the year 2000 in mind.

Thankfully, the so-called "year 2000 problem" didn't live up to the hype. NPR covered Y2K preparations for several years leading up to the new millennium.

The Y2K bug, or the prediction that all computers would fail to operate at the turn of the 21st Century because their processors couldn’t change their internal clocks from 1999 to 2000 ...

The year was 1999 - and governments and corporations were fearful about the unknown millenium computer bug. Here’s what to know about Y2K on its 25th anniversary.

That was the lead of an article that ran on the front page of The New York Times on Jan. 1, 2000. Yes, the year 2000 software problem, known as Y2K, turned out to be a nonevent.

As it turned out, computer-related problems were relatively minor in the opening days of 2000, and that has been a bone of contention for me.

Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.

The Year 2000 computer problem continues to nag at us 25 years later.

Thankfully, the so-called "year 2000 problem" didn't live up to the hype. NPR covered Y2K preparations for several years leading up to the new millennium.