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Y2K's Plot Was Already Done By The Simpsons Over Twenty Years Ago

The following contains spoilers for Y2K, now playing in theatersY2K shares some important plot beats with an episode of The Simpsons from over twenty years ago. Y2K is a time capsule of a movie, ...
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‘Y2K’ trailer: A24 horror comedy throws it back to the turn of the millennium [Watch]

Remember the Y2K scare, when we were afraid that computers wouldn’t be able to process having a 2 in the year instead of a 1, and which would lead to the collapse of society? That didn’t happen, but ...
Arizona State Press

Review: 'Y2K' is an unhinged blast from the past bringing the millennial nightmare to life

"This is gonna be our year. No, our millennium." Get ready to relive New Year's Eve 1999 with A24's new film "Y2K." The 90-minute film directed by Kyle Mooney stars new Hollywood faces and transports ...
Wall Street Journal

Y2K Nostalgia Is Everywhere. Why Is the Era So Hard to Get Right?

“Y2K,” a new horror comedy about digital devices turning murderous at the stroke of midnight in the year 2000, opens with the AOL dial-up sound, a video of President Bill Clinton on a computer that ...
NPR

Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were really freaking out

In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small software glitch: Many older computer programs had coded dates using only two ...