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  Re: Millenium Fool's Day!
 
(...) For the anal-retentive amongst us, there is no year 0, therefore the last year of the 20th century (big clue: 20 x 100) is 2000, which means the start of the third millennium A.D. (it's an abitrary start date, never mind it isn't really the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Millenium Fool's Day!
 
(...) Or to say it another way, we count the year we're IN, not the year we've finished. It's different from the way we count people's birthdays, for example. I just turned 25, which means I'm in my 26th year. And the years just "turned" 1999, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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