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.

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 ...

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 ...