# Happy Millenium! (I won't see you 'til next year!)

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**Created:** [December 29, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-millenium-i-wont-see-you-til-next-year/47714 "2000-12-29T20:51:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-millenium-i-wont-see-you-til-next-year/47714/1 "2000-12-29T20:51:29Z")

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Yes, this year marks the end of the 2nd millenium and the 20th century and 2001 marks the beginning of a new one (yeah, I’m expecting lots of changes…)

Last year was the celebration of the corporate millenium. It was kind of like 6 year-olds expecting Santa and just couldn’t wait…so they went ahead and created their own hype. I guess it was more exciting, kinda like watching your odometer rolling over 100,000km.

There have been a couple of reports on the News networks invariable starting with “Some say this is the start of the new millenium…” and interviewing people such as Isaac Asimov.

I suspect there will be 1 person at every party who pipes up with this information and then looked at with disdain and mocked for standing up for his/her belief in being assertively correct. Will you be one of the ridiculed?