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A thousand years long, yet humans panicked it would crash on one Tuesday night in 2000.
means A period of one thousand years.
from From Latin, stitched together from mille 'thousand' and annus 'year' — the same mille behind 'million' and 'millipede,' the same annus behind 'annual' and 'anniversary.' The plural 'millennia' keeps its Latin coat; the doubled 'n' (from annus) is the spelling everyone forgets.
- Y2K cost
- Fixing the bug cost roughly 300 billion dollars worldwide
- Off by one
- Real millennium started 2001, not 2000
- Falcon ship
- Star Wars' Falcon made the Kessel run in twelve parsecs
- Domesday plus
- Cathedrals took centuries, outliving every builder who started them
- Word roots
- From Latin mille and annus, thousand years
for instance
year 2000 — the transition from 1999 to 2000, marked by global celebrations and y2k concerns on january 1, 2000
year 1000 — the transition from 999 to 1000 ad, significant in medieval european history