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Number 02000

• '1' - The Beatles Compilation Album
• 'Blue Peter' - the TV Series
• 'Fantasia' - The Disney Versions
• 'Gladiator' - the Film
• 'Gone in 60 Seconds' - The Film
• 'Lone Wolf and Cub' - the Graphic Novel
• 'One Foot in the Grave' - the TV Series
• 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz - a History
• 'Surfer' - The Guinness TV Advert
• 'The Gruffalo' and 'The Gruffalo's Child' - Children's Stories
• 'The League of Gentlemen' - the TV Programme
• 'You're the One' by Paul Simon
• A History of the American Democratic Party
• Age of Empires - The Computer Game
• AIDS HIV - Global Epidemiologic Statistics
• Aikawa Nanase - Singer
• Aircraft of the Isle of Wight: 1900 - 1919
• Aircraft of the Isle of Wight: 1920 - 1945
• Aircraft of the Isle of Wight: 1946 - 1960
• Aircraft of the Isle of Wight: 1960 - 2000
• Ash Magna and Ash Parva, Shropshire, UK
• Asthma
• Australian Politics
• Aye-aye: Primate, Not Pirate
• Ayrton Senna - Racing Legend
• Bacillus 2-9-3
• Basil Brush AKA Ivan Owen
• Battle of New York City, USA
• BBC Radio One
• Big Country - the Band
• Blur - the Band
• Body Odour
• Bollywood Cinema 2000-2010
• Boyzone - the Boyband
• Brak and 'The Brak Show'
• British Patriotic Songs
• Britney Spears
• Bushisms: the Wisdom of George W Bush
• Caltrain Rail Service, California, USA
• Cameron Duncan - Filmmaker
• Charlton Athletic Football Club
• Chemistry of the Group 11 Elements - Copper, Silver and Gold
• Christopher Walken
• Classic Sporting Moments
• Computer Viruses
• Computers in Science Fiction - Contemporary Movies
• Concorde - the Passenger Plane to European Unification
• Conflict and Dramatic Play: A Better Way to Resolution
• Constellations: Aquarius 'the Water Carrier'
• Constellations: Cetus 'the Whale'
• Constellations: Crater 'the Cup'
• Constellations: Eridanus 'the River'
• Constellations: Monoceros 'the Unicorn'
• Constellations: Phoenix 'the Mythological Firebird'
• Constellations: Sagittarius 'the Archer'
• Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future
• David Bowie - The Man Who Fell To Earth
• David Irving - Historian
• Deep Purple's Live Albums - A Guide for the Purplexed
• Delirious? - the Band
• Derbyshire's Wallabies
• Dharamsala
• Diana Ross - Singer/Actress
• Dino Zoff - the Footballer
• Dollar - the Band
• Duran Duran - the Band
• East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
• Eddie Izzard - Actor and Stand-up Comedian
• Eric Idle - Comedian, Writer and Actor
• Farrar Road Football Ground, Bangor, Wales, UK
• Football League of Wales
• Frenzal Rhomb - the Band
• Gayndah, Queensland, Australia
• Goran Ivanisevic - Tennis Player
• Great Dates in History
• Great Golf Courses
• Greece
• Green Day - the Band: From the Beginning to 'American Idiot'
• Hammer Stars
• Hammer Today
• Hammersmith Bridge, London, UK
• Hanse Cronje - Cricketer
• Hat-tricks in Test Cricket
• Health Advice for Travellers
• Hicksville, Ohio, USA
• History of the Transformers
• Hoke Howell - Character Actor
• Horse Racing at the Hong Kong Jockey Club
• Hovercraft on the Isle of Wight, UK
• How to Recover a Crashed Windows PC
• How to Type the Euro Sign Using an Old Keyboard
• HRH Princess Anne - the Princess Royal
• INXS - the Band
• Irish Neolithic Tombs
• James Doohan - Actor
• Jan Ullrich - Cyclist
• Japan - the Band
• Japanese History and Culture
• Joey Dunlop - the Motorcyclist
• John McEnroe - Tennis Legend
• John Titor: a Time Traveller From The Year 2036?
• Joss Whedon - Television and Film Writer
• Karlstadt am Main, Germany
• Kylie Minogue OBE - Singer/Songwriter and Actress
• Lake Powell, Arizona, USA
• Last Chance To See - the Radio Series and Book
• Leeds United AFC - The Premiership Years 1992 - 2004
• Legionnaires' Disease - Frequently Asked Questions
• Lego
• Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, Wales, UK
• London Black Cabs
• London Monarchs
• LSD
• Lucas Radebe - Footballer
• Madonna - Entertainer
• Manchester United: The Sir Alex Era - Part Two
• Mariah Carey - Singer/Songwriter
• Mascots of the Summer Olympic Games
• Mexico
• Michael Jordan - Basketball Player
• Michael Moore - Multi-media Polemicist
• Mick Foley - the Wrestler
• Mike Keneally - Musician
• Millennium Tragedy In Africa
• Mirror Matter - the Invisible Universe
• Motorhead - the Band
• Muse - the Band
• Near-Earth Objects
• Ngawang Sangdrol
• Nick Hornby - the Author
• Nick Park - Film-maker
• Nikola Tesla
• Nintendo 64 - the Gaming Console
• Oasis - the Band
• Obesity
• Old Announcements: 2001
• OS/2
• Paula Yates (1960 - 2000) - Author and TV Presenter
• Pearl Jam - the Band
• Peckham Library, London, UK
• Pendennis Castle Youth Hostel, Falmouth, Cornwall
• Peter Jones (1920 - 2000)
• Photographic Metering
• Pictures: Events
• Piers of East and West Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
• Positronium - Part of the Subatomic World
• Powderfinger - the Band
• Proms in the Park - Last Night 2000
• Rage Against The Machine - the Band
• Rapids City, Illinois, USA
• Reindeer
• RELEVANCE
• Rich Hall - Comedian and Author
• Risk in Industrial Society - Some Case Histories
• Saxon - the Band
• Scott Levy - Pro-wrestling Veteran: Part Three
• Sea Wings 2000 - A Unique Airshow
• Sir Elton John - Singer/Songwriter
• Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
• Sony's PlayStation 2 - the Gaming Console
• Spock's Beard - the Band
• STATUS
• Stormont, Northern Ireland
• Streakers and Streaking
• Swamp Soccer
• Swords
• Taiko - the Way of the Drum
• Talking with Koko - An Inter-species Communication
• Tanzania
• Tax Freedom Day
• Tennis - New Balls Please
• Tennis - the Men's Singles Final, Wimbledon 2001
• Tetris - the Computer Game
• The 'Dilbert' Books
• The 'Sixth Sense' of Weakly Electric Fish
• The 'Wizard of Oz' Books
• The Annual Liars' Contest, Daltry
• The Bangles - the Band
• The Beach Boys - Solo and Outside Works
• The Beautiful South - the Band
• The Blue Peter Garden
• The Blue Screen of Death
• The Cocoa Bean Bowl Game
• The Conflict in Jammu and Kashmir
• The Cult - the Band
• The First Night of the Proms (2000)
• The Great Cross of Christ, Jumonville, Pennsylvania, USA
• The h2g2 Calendar - 10 - October
• The h2g2 Calendar - 11 - November
• The h2g2 Calendar - 2 - February
• The h2g2 Calendar - 4 - April
• The h2g2 Calendar - 5 - May
• The h2g2 Calendar - 7 - July
• The Higgs Boson
• The History of Yahoo!
• The Ig Nobel Prize
• The Jubilee Through the Ages
• The Legend of the Lorelei
• The Lightning Seeds - the Band
• The Millennium Celebrations of Ash, Shropshire, UK
• The Millennium Stadium Jinx
• The Mojave Phone Booth
• The Mu Arae Planetary System
• The Noise - Christians in Action
• The Pearl Jam Concert Experience
• The Rise and Fall of Boo.com
• The Rise and Fall of Napster
• The Scottish Claymores - American Football Team
• The Star Trek: New Frontier Books
• The Story of the London Eye
• The Suzy Lamplugh Trust
• The Technology of Formula One Racing
• The Tragedy of Roskilde 2000
• The True Story of 'The Story of O' by Pauline Reage
• The Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire, UK
• The UK Fuel Protests of September 2000
• The UK Millennium Construction Boom
• The US Electoral College
• The US Presidential Election 2000 - A Democrat's Perspective
• Time and Date
• Tips for Buying a Computer
• TITLE
• Tlicho, Canada
• Tobacco Smoke
• Torture
• Tuvalu
• Umami - the Fifth Taste
• Vancouver's SeaBus Ferry Service, British Columbia, Canada
• Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer - Comedians
• Voting in the United States
• Web 2.0
• West Nile Virus
• Women in Islam: veiled oppression or stigmatised misconception? - Part 1
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - the Band
• ZZ9 - The Hitchhiker's Appreciation Society

Jahr 2000 Problem (W3)

Jahr 2000
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09. September 1999

Vier Neunen - 9999 - wurden früher als „Müll“-Symbol beim Einrichten von Datenbanken benutzt. Setzte man statt des Datums die 9999 ein, hieß dies, daß der jeweilige Posten vom Programm ignoriert werden konnte, da er lediglich Testzwecken diente. Das Problem könnte bei älteren Datenbanken Probleme bereiten.

01. Januar 2000
Das von vielen so gefürchtete Jahr hat begonnen. Millionen Geräte mit eingebauten Elektrouhren glauben, daß das Jahr auf 1980 umgestellt wird.

29. Februar 2000
Das Jahr 2000 ist ein Schaltjahr. Doch nicht alle Maschinen und Programme wissen das.
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Mythen und Fakten zum Jahr 2000:
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Jahr-2000-Problem (W3)

Millenium Bug (W3)

Y2K is an abbreviation for "year 2000." As that year approached, many feared that computer programs storing year values as two-digit figures (such as 99) would cause problems. Many programs written years ago (when storage limitations encouraged such information economies) are still being used. The problem was that when the two-digit space allocated for "99" rolled over to 2000, the next number was "00." Frequently, program logic assumes that the year number gets larger, not smaller - so "00" was anticipated to wreak havoc in a program that hadn't been modified to account for the millennium. This situation was sometimes referred to as "the Y2K problem" or "the millenium bug."
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Millennial Generation (W3)

The generation born in 1978 or later.

Millennium bug (W3)

The Millennium Bug
Well, here we are in the new millennium and not an apocalypse in sight. We must admit we are very disappointed.
Here's a little reminder of those days when some people feared that to many zeroes in the date would stop computers in their tracks.
Allegedly taken from a memo received at a Fortune 500 company
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Millennium Problem (W3)

Millennium Problems

In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) has named seven Prize Problems. The Scientific Advisory Board of CMI selected these problems, focusing on important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years. The Board of Directors of CMI designated a $7 million prize fund for the solution to these problems, with $1 million allocated to each. During the Millennium Meeting held on May 24, 2000 at the Collège de France, Timothy Gowers presented a lecture entitled "The Importance of Mathematics", aimed for the general public, while John Tate and Michael Atiyah spoke on the problems. The CMI invited specialists to formulate each problem.

One hundred years earlier, on August 8, 1900, David Hilbert delivered his famous lecture about open mathematical problems at the second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. This influenced our decision to announce the millennium problems as the central theme of a Paris meeting.

The rules for the award of the prize have the endorsement of the CMI Scientific Advisory Board and the approval of the Directors. The members of these boards have the responsibility to preserve the nature, the integrity, and the spirit of this prize.

Paris, May 24, 2000

• Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
• Hodge Conjecture
• Navier-Stokes Equations
• P vs NP
• Poincaré Conjecture
• Riemann Hypothesis
• Yang-Mills Theory

paleofuture
Postcards Show the Year 2000 (circa 1900)

• A Quick Stroll on the Water
• The Moving Pavement
• House-Moving by Train
• Televised Outside Broadcasting
• Personal Flying Machines
• Weather Control Machine
• Combined Ship and Railway Locomotive
• Undersea Tourist Boats
• Roofed Cities
• Personal Airships
• Summer Holidays at the North Pole
• Police X-Ray Surveillance Machine

wortwarte
Neue Wörter des Jahres 2000

• September 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30 Oktober 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
• November 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
• Dezember 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

Y2K leap year bug (W3)

• Jedes durch 4 teilbare Jahr ist ein Schaltjahr.
• Jedes durch 100 teilbare Jahr ist kein Schaltjahr
• Jedes durch 400 teilbare Jahr ist allerdings doch ein Schaltjahr

Y2K (W3)

Word of the Year 1999 was "Y2K".

1999 Words of the Year, Word of the 1990s, Word of the 20th Century, Word of the Millennium
January 13th, 2000 Comments Off

The American Dialect Society words of the year, decade, century, and millennium chosen in January 2000 need no introduction. But they could use an explanation.

• Word of the Year 1999 was Y2K.
• Word of the 1990s Decade was web.
• Word of the Twentieth Century was jazz.
• Word of the Past Millennium was she.

Yes, she, the feminine pronoun. Before the year 1000, there was no she in English; just heo, which singular females had to share with plurals of all genders because it meant they as well. In the twelfth century, however, she appeared, and she has been with us ever since. She may derive from the Old English feminine demonstrative pronoun seo or sio, or from Viking invasions.
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• FROGAPULT, ELFBOWL, Y2KGAME Virus Hoax 12/08/1999
• Y2K7 Virus Hoax

Y2K - Rose

Deep yellow Miniature.
Registration name: SAVyk
Exhibition name: Y2K ™
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Y2k Problem (W3)

Year 2000 and ISO 8601
This page is a Year 2000 Resource Centre for Amateur Radio operators and for Amateur Astronomers. There is also much of interest to the general public and for business users. This site is developed and improved on a regular basis.
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Year 2000 Information Main Page

Y2OK (W3)

Year 2000 - Rose

Yellow blend Miniature.
Registration name: Jalyear
Bred by Brad Jalbert (Canada, 2004).
Miniature
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Year 2000 Problem (W3)

Year 2000 and ISO 8601
This page is a Year 2000 Resource Centre for Amateur Radio operators and for Amateur Astronomers. There is also much of interest to the general public and for business users. This site is developed and improved on a regular basis.
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Y2K is an abbreviation for "year 2000." As that year approached, many feared that computer programs storing year values as two-digit figures (such as 99) would cause problems. Many programs written years ago (when storage limitations encouraged such information economies) are still being used. The problem was that when the two-digit space allocated for "99" rolled over to 2000, the next number was "00." Frequently, program logic assumes that the year number gets larger, not smaller - so "00" was anticipated to wreak havoc in a program that hadn't been modified to account for the millennium. This situation was sometimes referred to as "the Y2K problem" or "the millenium bug."
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Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
Millennium
Die Weltgeschichte unseres Jahrtausends

Klappentext
Was können Elfenbeinkästchen, die Salbe für erotische Vergnügungen enthielten, über die Welt vor 1000 Jahren erzählen? Sie sind Zeugnisse einer hochstilisierten Kultur am Hof Almanzors, der zur letzten Jahrtausendwende in Cordoba regierte. Das damals islamische Cordoba war die größte Stadt der westlichen Welt. Die größte Stadt überhaupt war zu jener Zeit Kaifeng in China. Macht, Kultur und Luxus hatten denn auch ihr Zentrum im pazifischen Raum, so die Grundüberzeugung von Felipe Fernandez - Amesto, der mit seiner Geschichte aller Weltkulturen von 1000 bis 2000 n. Chr. ein faszinierendes Geschichtsbuch vorgelegt hat.Erst im Laufe unseres Jahrtausends, so Fernandez - Amesto, hat sich die Vorherrschaft des Westens, der atlantischen Zivilisationen, herausgebildet, die sich aber bereits dem Ende nähert. Denn die Initiative, das entscheidende Merkmal der letzten 1000 Jahre, wandert erneut Richtung Pazifik. Diese Entwicklungen des ausgehenden Millenniums erläutert Fernandez - Armesto nicht anhand von Kaisern und Königen, Kriegen und Wirtschaftsdaten. Er erzählt Geschichte als Geschichte. Als Alltags-, Körper-, Liebesgeschichten. Er möchte mit seinen Lesern die Geheimnisse, den Zauber ferner Kulturen herausschmecken, in sie eintauchen. So kristallisieren sich aus dieser faszinierenden Sammlung von Zeugnissen, Geschichten und Gesichtern allmählich die großen Grundzüge unseres Jahrtausends heraus. Millennium ist nichts weniger als ein trockenes Geschichtswerk. Es sprüht vor Phantasie und Lust am Denken. Witz, Sinnlichkeit und Poesie reißen den Leser ebenso mit wie die frappierende Wissensfülle. Das macht das imposante Tausend - Seiten Werk zu einem Handbuch für das dritte Jahrtausend und zu einem intellektuellen Vergnügen par excellence.