Some of the computer systems in use today customarily process the year portion of any date as two digits (thus 1998 becomes 98). It is suspected that systems that employ this form of notation will ...

In the late 1990s, computer nerds (myself included) were up in arms about the Y2K problem. In brief, the issue was that many computer systems used six-digit dates (two digits each for day, month, and ...

Remember the last weeks of 1999? The air was thick with anticipation and, for many, panic. Here in Central Texas, some people were stocking up on bottled water and canned goods like the end of the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (CNN) -- When a powerful tornado struck Oklahoma City recently, it caused a breakdown in internal hospital systems, such as elevators and electricity powering critical ...