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.

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.

Practical Guide to the Year 2000 Problem written about the Year 2000 and its effects on Embedded Systems for industries like shipping.

The Year 2000 computer problem has become a punchline in recent years, but the CrowdStrike outage shows the joke's on us.

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

We skipped leap years in 1700, 1800 and 1900, but didn't in 2000. According to How Stuff Works, the Y2K, or Year 2000 problem, was the reason we skipped the leap year.

Y2K refers to a computer glitch identified in some software systems that could have disrupted the transition from the year 1999 to 2000.

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.

Basically, some systems had the year listed as two numbers, so when we hit the year 2000, those computers would think it was 1900. Called the year 2000 problem, it became known simply as Y2K.

In the Y2K movie—which was directed by Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney, who also co-wrote with Evan Winter—the Year 2000 problem is re-imagined.