Y2K, New Year's Day and computer-aided dispatch

‘Our Own Little Y2K’: LA Sheriff’s Dispatch System Down After New Year’s Day Computer Crash
“It’s our own little Y2K,” a sheriff’s deputy told the LA Times. The crash occurred just a few hours before midnight on Tuesday, spurring problems with the department’s ability to handle calls related to the county’s New Year’s celebration
'Our own little Y2K': L.A. Sheriff's computer dispatch system crashes on New Year's Eve
It's not clear how long it will take to fix the problem, but in the meantime deputies and dispatchers must use radios instead of patrol car computers.
LASD's dispatch system remains down after New Year's Day crash
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department computer dispatch system remains down after it crashed on New Year's Eve.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's computer dispatch system remains down since New Year's Eve
The archaic computer dispatch system for the nation's largest sheriff's department remained out of commission on Thursday after crashing on New Year's Eve, forcing deputies to handle all calls by radio,
LA County Sheriff's dispatch system crashes
A system crash within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is affecting the way deputies log and respond to calls.
Dispatch computer crash on New Year’s Eve leaves L.A. deputies scrambling
Deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were forced to respond to emergency calls the old-fashioned way, by radio, after the agency’s computer dispatch system crashed just hours before midnight,
Remembering the Y2K scare a quarter-century later
years ago, as the year 2,000 approached, many worried that computer glitches caused by the date switch would disrupt society.
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Y2K 25th Anniversary: Potential crisis came and went while the world held its breath
Twenty-five years ago, while the world was waiting on edge, the potential Y2K crisis came and went without any major failures ...
Unearthing their Y2K time capsule, Maryland millennials revisit childhood
A quarter-century after burying a plastic pipe stuffed with notes and mementos, old friends in Silver Spring discover that ...
As Confetti Rained on Times Square, Y2K Bug Was a No-Show
Planes didn’t fall from the sky on Jan. 1, 2000. A technology reporter who wrote a front-page article early that morning ...
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Carrie McDermott: Y2K, the apocalypse that wasn’t
Happy New Year and welcome to 2025. It's been 25 years since the turn of the millennium when we were warned that our computer ...
Y2K, 25 Years Later: How TV News Exacerbated the Apocalypse That Never Was
In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.
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25 years since Y2K: Memories of mass hysteria on the Treasure Coast
When panic gripped the globe on New Year's Eve, 1999, newspaper archives show some Treasure Coast residents equally ...
It is 25 years since the Y2K panic: Do you remember it?
For people over the age of 30, the Y2K panic of 1999 was a real concern. It seems silly now, but for many people a quarter ...
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2000: Give Y2K food to Channel One
People who stocked up on supplies of canned goods and other foods for the Y2K computer crisis are being urged to donate them ...
Nashville Then: Tennessee survives Y2K scare 25 years ago
A quarter century ago, as 1999 neared 2000, Y2K was all the buzz. A look back at how The Tennessean covered the event.
Coco Jones Channels Y2K Style in LBD for the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers Game
Coco Jones favored a Y2K style for her attire, sitting courtside at the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers game on ...