In a vibrant collection of “essays on the future that never was,” Colette Shade takes a cold look at the cheery promise of ...

Shade spent part of her teenage years in the Baltimore suburbs and today lives in Towson. Before moving to Towson, she lived ...

Historians argue about periodization all the time. Y2K started with the dot-com bubble. It’s been largley memoryholed now, but the dot-com bubble was huge: culturally, economically, and in my ...

“Some genuine writing had to be done after the fact ... Because it was. And now, “Y2K” is getting the perfect delivery, into your home, just in time for New Year’s Eve.

When Zachary Loeb, who was 15 at the turn of the millennium, decided to study Y2K as the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation, he recalled that he had initially assumed he would be writing “a ...

As the new century approached 25 years ago, Y2K swept the nation. It was a real crisis that the U.S. spent tens of billions of dollars solving, but it also sparked untrue hysteria about planes ...

Reflecting on Y2K, a quarter-century on ... Neal joined Mashable’s Social Good team in 2024, editing and writing stories about digital culture and its effects on the environment and marginalized ...