2000
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2000 (MM) was a century leap year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar, the 2000th year of the Common Era and the Anno Domini designation, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 2000s decade. 2000 was designated as the international year for the culture of peace and the world's mathematical year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and of the 3rd millennium, which is only because of a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if the nonexistent year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with year 1 of the common era. Since the Gregorian calendar doesn't have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. See more at century, and also millennium. The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as Y2K, because Y stands for year, and the K stands for kilo which means thousand. The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, the fear that computers wouldn't shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. Towards the end of 1999, however, many companies got converted to new, and changed their existing software. Some even obtained Y2K certification. As a result from massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1970s 1980s 1990s – 2000s – 2010s 2020s 2030s |
Years: | 1997 1998 1999 – 2000 – 2001 2002 2003 |