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2000 was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. 2000 may also refer to: * Year 2000 problem * 2000 (number) * Video 2000, a consumer videocassette system and analogue recording standard * Lever 2000, a soap brand owned by Unilever * 2000 CR105, , the tenth most distant known object in the Solar System * a postal code in Antwerp, Belgium * a postal code in Frederiksberg, Denmark * 2000, the postcode of Sydney central business district, Australia * Windows 2000, operating system *Microsoft Office 2000, a version of Microsoft Office * X 2000, high-speed trains in Sweden * Quasar 2000, a Czech hang glider design Music and dance * 2000 B.C. (album), ''2000 B.C.'' (album), a 2000 album by rapper Canibus * ''Cusco 2000'', an album by the German cross-cultural new age band Cusco * 2000 (song), "2000" (song), a 2009 song by Swedish band Kent * 2000 Won, a South Korean band * 2000 (Joey Badass album) * 2000 (Grand Puba album) * 2000 (EP), an EP by Ugly Leaders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if non-existent year zero was counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (For further information, see century and millennium.) The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo-, kilo" which means "thousand"). The year 2000 was the subject of Year 2000 problem, Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
