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What does “mid 2000's” mean? I don’t mean to be dense, I just can’t figure it out.
by leephillips 5y ago
What does “mid 2000's” mean? I don’t mean to be dense, I just can’t figure it out.
- timemct 5y agoYears 2003(ish) to 2008(ish).
- leephillips 5y agoThanks. I was being dense. The first thing I though was, “around 2500?”, which is silly.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y agoThe English-speaking world still hasn't really agreed upon a term for that decade, especially in America, where "aught" and "nought" are rarely used words. (We tend to use "zero" instead, and "the zeroes" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughts
- _tki0 5y agoYeah, at best we have the-turn-of-the-century (millennium?). Though mid-turn doesn't seem quite right either.
- dredmorbius 5y agoMid '00s if you prefer. Referencing decades in two-digit form fell out of favour with the Y2K issue. Perhaps it should be resurrected. At the turn of the 20th century, fashion was to refer to "oh-eight" and such, IIRC. I don't know that the decade had a common nomenclature. I suspect there's a Wikipedia article on that somewhere.... Hrm ... not really, or at least not readily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade
- jethro_tell 5y agoLol was thinking this yesterday when I was explain school years to my grade schoolers. You know, 2nd grade was from 2020-2021 and third is 2021-2022. Half way through I was thinking, we could probably go back to 2 digit years now. . ..
- zeven7 5y agoWe're just starting the 20s. I don't think I ever heard of the decade from 1910 to 1919 being referred to as the 10s, but I definitely heard of the 20s. Maybe the first 20 years of a century are kind of hard to name, so, yeah it's about time.
- garaetjjte 5y agoCan we now go back to storing year as 2 digits? /s
- deadbunny 5y agoShow HN: How we saved $2MM in AWS transfer fees by storing years as 2 digits (2051)
- dotancohen 5y agoBy that time $2MM will buy you a Pepsi and a broken record player.
- ComodoHacker 5y agoMany would pay decent money for a player that can revive broken records!
- dredmorbius 5y agoI'm pretty certain "teens" was commonly used to refer to the years 1910--1919.