The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers
...though bonkers conspiracies on solving date-field problem never died down
Retro Tech Week Forty years ago, both Jerome and Marilyn Murray saw their brainchild reach the light of day. In 1984, their book, Computers in Crisis, was published, becoming the first authoritative guide to the Millennium Bug coding problem, which, in the final year of the century, would consume media, political and business attention....