We celebrated the new millennium in 2000. We were wrong! It turns out (kind of obvious when you think about it, but we never seem to think about it) that there is no year zero in the Gregorian calender. The years go 4BC, 3BC, 2BC, 1BC, 1AD, 2AD, 3AD, 4AD...So, taking this into account, the new millennium was actually 2001. Just thought that was a funny thought. All the screaming and excitement over the wrong date.
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We did it wrong...
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You just realized this?
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I did to, but then agian I didn't know stop spelled backward is pots until I saw a stop sign in my reveiw mirror.
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Yup. I had never thought about it before.
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That's remarkable, because it was a common topic of discussion in newspapers here at the time. Most people knew the 21st century and the third millennium started in 2001, but the idea of the numbers turning over was more attractive. I recall an historian saying then that it appeared that a thousand years before the big celebrations were in 1000 rather than 1001 (though I'd like to see his sources).
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From SeinfeldThe MillenniumKramer and Newman move to the door to leave. Newman stops as Jerry speaks tohim, and Kramer exits to his apartment.JERRY: By the way Newman, I'm just curious. When you booked the hotel, did youbook it for the millennium New Year?NEWMAN: (smug) As a matter of fact, I did.JERRY: Oh, that's interesting, because as everyone knows, since there was noyear zero, the millennium doesn't begin until the year two-thousand and one.Which would make your party, one year late, and thus, quite lame.Newman absorbs the logic of Jerry's argument. His face twitches as he realiseshis error.JERRY: Aww!Newman makes a noise redolent of his frustration - a sort of half-strangulatednasal squeak. He then waddles away after Kramer.
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What I've been thinking about is how everyone made a big deal about 1990, 2000, but nothing all that exciting about 2010 with it being the beginning of new decade. I dunno, in my weird brain I found it odd lol
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They're all waiting for 2012. :wink:
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Originally Posted By: OldFolksThey're all waiting for 2012. lol must be it
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it's funny that you've only just now stumbled upon this.I've always found it to be an interesting bit of intellectual masturbation. Time is eternal, man's definition of time is arbitrary.Since the Gregorian calendar was implemented almost 1600 solar years after the time of Christ (or the beginning of the Common Era, if you prefer) it had to be worked backwards over history. It also modified the tracking of leap years but preceded the tracking of leap seconds so that back dating can't even be conceived as totally accurate.You and I were not 1 until a year after our birth. So my year one ended on my first birthday and I was considered to be 1 yr old during the course of my second year and so on.Therefore, would it not make some sense that year one AD/CE would end on it's "first birthday", January 1st, 0001?Or, if we have the millennium wrong, then we've had every turn of the century and decade wrong as well. Of course, in the bigger picture, it's irrelevant. The universe keeps ticking along quite merrily, no mater how one species of the inhabitants of one planet defines the passage of time.
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Humans measure time so insignificantly anyway. Really, one "year" is nothing to the earth, considering it takes hundred- thousands- hundreds of thousands and millions of years for changes to occur on Earth.But us humans, we base it in our terms
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Hehe you're doing it wrong...All well and good but this is like... Umm I don't remember. 09 or 010. Something like that.Anyways. Why bring this up now >.>
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Originally Posted By: Buick2010Humans measure time so insignificantly anyway. Really, one "year" is nothing to the earth, considering it takes hundred- thousands- hundreds of thousands and millions of years for changes to occur on Earth.But us humans, we base it in our terms Or seconds... think the scab lands, the Toba eruption, the Hawaiian landslide or in modern times Mount St. Helens eruption.
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Originally Posted By: NtroducingMyselfWhat I've been thinking about is how everyone made a big deal about 1990, 2000, but nothing all that exciting about 2010 with it being the beginning of new decade. I dunno, in my weird brain I found it odd lol You know, the other day it just hit me that it would be a new decade. I just had never thought of it. I don't know why. But, just a couple days ago I realized "hey, this is going to be a new decade!" It just hit me. lol. I don't know, maybe other people haven't really thought of it either.
