I grew up in the 90s and I remember being able to truncate the year down to just 2 numbers when talking about years within the current millennium. It seems like we’re still saying twenty before every year and I’m just wondering when that will change.

  • db2@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Time to ruin your day. They’ve been calling that time period the “aughties”.

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      35 minutes ago

      Time to ruin your day…

      The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.