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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by HPsquared on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:35PM (#25693454)
That would be MCMXCIX
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by clouddrover on Friday January 08, 2021 @07:54PM (#25693782)
No, 2000 was the last year. There was no year zero.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by HPsquared on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:14PM (#25694332)
Hmm, interesting - I stand corrected. So the first millennium was years 1 through 1000. First I've heard of it! Another casualty of 1-based indexing I suppose. Perhaps the people setting the system up didn't have a concept of 'zero'?
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump by ebruchez on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:54AM (#25697751)
There is a Seinfeld episode that covers this topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennium_(Seinfeld)

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