Even when changes could be made, the time it took to test them was taxing on the IT staff. See Y2K anxiety. The problem originated with punch cards that go back to the early 1900s. In order to ...

25 years ago the world overcame the Y2K crisis. John Barron looks at how Australia beat the millennium bug, a global panic over fears our computer systems would meltdown when the date hit 1/1/2000.