__2000: __Less than a week after Y2K passes without a global computer meltdown, a glitch in a 1960s computer at the air traffic control center in Washington, D.C., slows and shuts down airlines in the ...

I have an older Windows 2000 PC (Pentium 1 MMX era) and whenever it goes to shutdown it won't power off automatically. Instead it displays a "It is now safe to turn off your computer." screen.

Before we all carried computers in our pockets, there was a "computer room" — a space we set aside for the home's lone PC. Family members would queue up for time with the system, and at night, it ...