There was also media and public interest in the Y2K computer bug.Ī third position was expressed by Bill Paupe, honorary consul for Kiribati: "To me, I just don't see what all the hoopla is about. Adding to its cultural significance, the "year 2000" had been a popular phrase referring to an often utopian future, or a year when stories in such a future were set. This sometimes referred to as "the odometer effect". naming the period 1980 to 1989 as "the 1980s" or "the eighties"). Popular culture supported celebrating the arrival of the new millennium in the transition from 1999 to 2000 (i.e., December 31, 1999, to January 1, 2000), in that the change of the hundreds digit in the year number, with the zeroes rolling over, is consistent with the vernacular demarcation of decades by their 'tens' digit (e.g. Those holding that the arrival of the new millennium should be celebrated in the transition from 2000 to 2001 (i.e., December 31, 2000, to January 1, 2001) argued that the Anno Domini system of counting years began with the year 1 (There was no year zero) and therefore the first millennium was from the year 1 to the end of the year 1000, the second millennium from 1001 to the end of 2000, and the third millennium beginning with 2001 and ending at the end of 3000. The first convention is common in English-speaking countries, but the latter is favoured in, for example, Sweden ( tvåtusentalet, which translates literally as the two thousands period). The difference of opinion comes down to whether to celebrate, respectively, the end or the beginning of the "-000" year. The issue arises from the difference between the convention of using ordinal numbers to count years and millennia, as in "the third millennium", or using a vernacular description, as in "the two thousands". Historically, there has been debate around the turn of previous decades, centuries, and millennia. There was a public debate leading up to the celebrations of the year 2000 as to whether the beginning of that year should be understood as the beginning of "the" new millennium. The Conflict Resolution view lets you visually compare conflicting changes, so you can easily decide what version to keep.All aboard for the millennium! by Opper and Keppler, 1896 Coauthoring enables several people to work simultaneously in the same PowerPoint presentation. The Animation pane helps you design and fine-tune animations. Presenter View gives you the tools to present with confidence, displaying the current slide, next slide, speaker notes, and a timer on your Mac, while projecting only the presentation to your audience on the big screen. Change the style of your presentation using theme variants, different color schemes for a theme. Threaded comments enable you to have useful conversations right next to relevant text. Easily share notebooks with friends, family, or colleagues so everyone can work together on travel plans, household tasks, or work projects. Bold, italicize, underline, highlight, insert files, pictures and tables-format your notes like you want. Find things quickly with a powerful search engine that tracks your tags, indexes your typed notes, and recognizes text in images and handwritten notes. Capture, organize, and share your ideas with digital notebooks that you can access on any device. Harness your thoughts in your very own digital notebook.