Y2K Links

By Coy Hoggard, Senior Director of Computing and UNT Y2K Remediation Coordinator

After reading "Y2K -- A Minor Hiccup or Major Indigestion," you may be interested in finding other sources of information on the Year 2000 Problem. Below are some URLs for Web sites which contain interesting and useful Y2K information.

• Y2K information for the City of Denton can be found at: http://www.cityofdenton.com/y2k

• American Red Cross — Contains recommendations for Y2K preparation: http://www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/y2k.html

• Site of UNT’s Dr. Leon Kappelman, widely recognized Y2K expert contains, links to some of his and others’ articles, links to other sites, etc.: http://www.year2000.unt.edu/kappelma

• Texas Department of Information Resources Y2K Project Office: http://www.dir.state.tx.us/y2k/

• Texas Department of Information Resources — previous meetings — links and slides from past presentations (just click on underlined entries): http://www.dir.state.tx.us/y2k/workgroup/workgrmtgs/index.htm

• Year 2000 Public Information Clearinghouse — Y2K Guidebooks: http://www.dir.state.tx.us/y2k/publicinfo/guidebooks.htm

• U.S. Dept. of Transportation: http://www.dot.gov/technology.htm

• Wells Fargo: http://www.wellsfargo.com/y2k

• A small business study done by Wells Fargo: http://www.wellsfargo.com/press/press980526/

• PBS (site contains links to articles & other relevant sites): http://www.pbs.org/y2kontarget/

• Link to Dr. Leon Kappelman article "The Importance of Local Preparedness": http://www.pbs.org/y2kontarget/kappelman.html

• Giga Information Group: http://www.gigaweb.com

• Readiness 2000 — A Coalition of Texas State Agencies Promoting Y2K Preparedness: http://readiness2000.state.tx.us

• Texas Department of Banking (has Y2K FAQ w/ questions, answers, and referral numbers): http://www.banking.state.tx.us

• The Y2K Problem: Twenty Five Things to Expect During the Rest of 1999 By Warren S. Reid, posted October 22, 1999: http://www.year2000.com/y2kcurrent1.html or: http://www.year2000.com/archive/NFwhatto.html

• Look at IBM’s Year 2000 section for a great rollover planning guide: http://www.ibm.com/ibm/year2000/

• Consumer Information, including a Y2K checklist: www.consumer.gov/y2k/

• News, awareness, advice: http://www.y2kspecialist.com/

• These are fun to look at, whether or not you’re interested in buying anything: http://www.lehmans.com/

• Citizen’s Action Guide from Utne Reader: http://www.utne.com/bY2k.tmpl$search?db=dArticle.db&eqheadlinedata=Y2K%20Citizen%27s%20Action%20Guide

• U.S. State Dept. — plethora of links on travel, gov’t, aviation, personal preparedness, food/water, health, energy, communications, finance, transportation, shipping, international: http://travel.state.gov/y2kca.html

• Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission: http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/y2k/y2k.html

• The Better Business Bureau’s Year 2000 and You: http://www.bbb.org/library/y2k.html

• U.S. Small Business Administration Y2K help: http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/y2k

• American Petroleum Institute: www.api.org

• Texas A&M report on chemical safety: http://www.humanitarian.net/y2keconomic.html

• Free Y2K technical bulletin: www.swbooks.com/pubs/bulletins/link.htm

• TechWeb Year 2000 Countdown, lots of technical articles: http://www.techweb.com/wire/technews/year2000.html

• U.S. Postal Service: http://www.usps.com/year2000/

• In a State of Texas Public Service Announcement, the Citizens of Tuna, Texas remind us that "it’s the start of a great new millennium, not the end of the world." (Y2K — Don’t Panic, be Ready) (files in RealVideo format): http://readiness2000.state.tx.us/psa.html

• Y2K Countdown Clock, and more: Countdown to the Year 2000