Was the Millennium Bug Real?

The millennium bug was real and the internationally coordinated effort was a great success. Tens of thousands of failures were prevented.

Is Y2K bug real?

The Y2K bug was a computer flaw, or bug, that may have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond December 31, 1999. ... When complicated computer programs were being written during the 1960s through the 1980s, computer engineers used a two-digit code for the year.

How did we avoid Y2K?

Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option.