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Article #332Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 03:18
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 03:18
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In article <50...@blake.acs.washington.edu> m...@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes: > >In the popular mind, however, the next century will start in the year >2000, and people will undoubtably consider 2000 to be more >"significant" a year than 2001. > Of course more people alive now will be around in 2000 than will be in 2001. I'm sure that 2001 will gain significance in about 100 years. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | Thank goodness we don't get all D'Arcy Cain Consulting | the government we pay for. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | No disclaimers. I agree with me |
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century. Message-ID: <1989Dec20.031815.2779@druid.uucp> Date: 20 Dec 89 03:18:15 GMT References: <18494@bellcore.bellcore.com> <552@enea.se> <8483@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1468@skye.ed.ac.uk> <4065@convex.UUCP> <10460@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <5093@blake.acs.washington.edu> Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario Lines: 13 Posted: Wed Dec 20 04:18:15 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit