Reply #28: Oh, Because Prince Is The Authority?

[iamjoy]

I like the man's music, but he is hardly the expert on math or chronology. It's psychological - we all think of 2000 as the beginning of the new millenium because all the numbers changed. It somehow feels more important. The geeks feel compelled to point out that we didn't start counting at year zero, we started at one, so two thousand years later is 2001, not 2000. Besides, it just feels wrong to put 2000 in with the 90's - it doesn't have a nine in it.

But technically...