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Why are the years in this article preceded by a zero? For example instead of writing the year as 2011 it’s written as 02011.

• 0xTJ 2y ago
  From the homepage of the site: > The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. Seems that it's adding a zero to make you think of the future, and thinking over long periods of time. Looking at scales of thousands of years instead of tens or even hundreds.
  • prox 2y ago
    Some people seem to think its a long way to the chemists, but thats peanuts to space.
    • 8372049 2y ago
      Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
• sratner 2y ago
  It's a Long Now thing - emphasizing that they are thinking/talking about problems on millennia timescales. They also did the 10000yr clock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
• aeternum 2y ago
  To subtly imply that the articles are of such sublime quality that they will still be referenced in 10,000 years.