Y2K

[ wahy-too-key ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

abbreviation for

the year 2000.
Also called millennium bug ( ), a bug that could cause computers or software to misinterpret a year after 1999 as having the first two digits 19 instead of 20, due to the coding of dates using only the last two digits of the four-digit year.

relating to or characteristic of the late 1990s and early 2000s:
The outfit merges Y2K aesthetics with contemporary trends.

Y2K

Origin of Y2K¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; Y(ear) + 2 + K symbol for the number 1000

Origin of Y2K¹

C20: y ( ear ) + 2 + k (in the sense: thousand)

For most of us, the repeal of DADT has been Y2K all over: something hyped, but nothing more.

Not likely, since the end-of-millennium Y2K scare was just as hysterical as the response to Irene.

We also must be ready for the 21st century from its very first moment by solving the so-called Y2K computer problem.

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