The Y2K Bug There is a problem confronting today’s society that could change the world as we know it. It is a problem that was initially caused by a lack of technology, but recently by an act of laziness. The problem is known as the “Year 2000 Bug” (Y2K bug). It deals with how the computer programmers inputted the date codes into the computers' hardware and software. These date codes could possibly cause many computers and many items that have computer chips within them to fail at the turn of the century. Back in the 1960’s, when computers were still in their infancy, computer programmers would input the date code by only entering a two digit number (i.e., 60) versus inputting a four digit