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1. Year Zero (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 01:06:16 EST; <<It will not be the 21st Century until 1/1/2001. not 1/1/2000. The 20th Century did not start until 1/1/1901. Or do we have just 99 years this Century??> <Oh, really? You are assuming that the year; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00079.html (8,113 bytes)
2. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: richard.arnold@juno.com (Richard D Arnold); Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:00:30 -0600; While I agree that, technically speaking (calculating in increments of 100 years), the millenium will begin in 2001, I believe that we're missing a somewhat relevant point. The common and accepted p; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00082.html (9,895 bytes)
3. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: Leckstein <bleckstein@mail.monmouth.com>; Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 00:56:48 -0500; Sorry, I believe Bill is right. Although common conviction may argue that the celebration takes place when the digits roll over, ( something like the odometer turning back after100,000 miles) , what; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00086.html (9,249 bytes)
4. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: "Eric Houkal" <erictw@enteract.com>; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 09:23:23 -0600; Wow almost all the points I've been mulling over during this whole discussion. I might also add that according to the people who think it is important, if these dates were not totally arbitrary and t; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00091.html (10,711 bytes)
5. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: Pat Bailey <pbailey@qnet.com>; Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 08:05:08 -0800; Didn't some monk come up with our calendar?He did it some time after year 0 and claimed that the date he came up with was for example 1234 or something ,that's when we started our calendar not 0.So I; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00094.html (7,440 bytes)
6. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:20:50 EST; << ( I wonder when 20th Century Fox will change their name) I am all for two celebrations. Maybe Andy Rooney should get into this discussion. >> Good question. And I'll bet Andy will chip in and like; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00096.html (7,603 bytes)
7. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 16:35:08 -0000; When some people insist on putting marvel mystery oil in their SUs, modern sythetics in their engines, diodes in their ignition warning light wiring, and electronic flasher units in place of their 'f; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00101.html (8,780 bytes)
8. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: Dave Houser <mgs4dave@warwick.net>; Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 12:02:39 -0400; An awful lot of bandwidth for what should be quite an experience we will all(I hope) share. Think about it-- it will be 50 or more generations til the next millenium(give or take a year here or ther; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00102.html (7,444 bytes)
9. RE: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: Tom Emmons <tom@emmons.com>; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 13:16:22 -0600; "The common and accepted practice seems to be that we begin a new century when the "digits roll over," ie, 1 January 100 began the second century, 1 January 1900 began the twentieth, etc. As a pract; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00111.html (7,780 bytes)
10. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: richard.arnold@juno.com (Richard D Arnold); Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 14:14:46 -0600; Again, since the practice is common and accepted among those who use it daily, has been that method for hundreds of years, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, it appears that the use of any other method; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00112.html (8,296 bytes)
11. RE: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: "Steve Conley" <swconley@foxinternet.net>; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:50:58 -0800; A century is simply 100 years, a millennium is simply 1000 years. So, even though the 21st century doesn't begin until 2001, it has been 100 years since 1900 and 1000 years since the year 1000. So, i; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00114.html (8,552 bytes)
12. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: dresden@tiac.net; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 20:52:36 GMT; Umm, actually, I think the common practice has always been that a century begins on the start of the '01 year...none of us are old enough (I don't think, anyway) to remember the start of the 20th ce; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00115.html (8,641 bytes)
13. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: "MSLishego" <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu>; Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:45:57 -0500; Here's a question...What are we going to call the first years of the century? Will we say it's "ought-nine" in 2009, or will we say "oh-nine?" Two-thousand-nine sounds too wordy. What will school se; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00171.html (7,981 bytes)
14. Re: Year Zero (score: 1): Author: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison); Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:21:34 EST; On Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:45:57 -0500 "MSLishego" <mikesl@tartan.sapc.edu> Well just think of all the James Bond fans who are now at about the 5th grade. They will all get to be "007" (Class of ) Rick Mo; /html/mgs/1999-01/msg00220.html (8,069 bytes)

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