The Y2K bug was a computer flaw where two-digit year codes threatened to cause global systems to misinterpret the year 2000 as 1900, potentially crashing critical infrastructure. One famous home video captures a man's tense anticipation on New Year's Eve as his PC successfully rolls over to midnight, transforming a feared digital apocalypse into a harmless, celebrated non-event. | History In Pictures

The year 2000 will forever be remembered for the moment the world held its breath—Y2K. As midnight approached on December 31, 1999, fear spread across the globe that computers would crash, planes would fall from the sky, and bank accounts would vanish. The issue? Many computer systems only used the last two digits to represent years, and no one knew if “00” would be read as 1900 instead of 2000. Governments, businesses, and IT teams worked around the clock, pouring billions into fixing the “Mill