The first decade of the 21st century is almost over.
Doesn't that make you feel old?
Doesn't that make you feel old?
Hard to believe the twenty-teens begin in four months...
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So maybe we'll finally get around to coming up with a name for the current decade.
john titor
Captain
Just call it the tens, however inaccurate that is, it doesn't matter, just please lets not call it anything as bad as the naughties (shudder).
I hope that the next next decade might eschew the crassness of this one and perhaps the zeitgeist might move to a more positive mentality, I absolutely despise this doom mongering which is ubiquitous. Yes I know there is a recession but its largely psychological. In fact even before the global crash there was a kind of cynicism and arrogance which filtered through culturally.
I hope that the next next decade might eschew the crassness of this one and perhaps the zeitgeist might move to a more positive mentality, I absolutely despise this doom mongering which is ubiquitous. Yes I know there is a recession but its largely psychological. In fact even before the global crash there was a kind of cynicism and arrogance which filtered through culturally.
Supreme Admiral
Captain
It's too quick to pass that up. The first decade of 21st century wasn't that bad, but wish that it would be of the same like '90's, because they were awesome back in my earlier life. As of next decade, I hope that there won't be more reality shows! I'm tired and sick of reality shows is taking tv over!
It's time that we take that back!
It's time that we take that back!
john titor
Captain
In fact even before the global crash there was a kind of cynicism and arrogance which filtered through culturally, in the forms of bling rap, remakes and SUVs and gangster chic...it was like with all the money floating around people wanted ugly things, like SUVs.
john titor
Captain
Yes exactly, the 90s a welcome relief from the greed is good proselytizing of the 80s, granted there was a lot of greed in the 90s. It was a more optimistic time, a happier time with better bands, tv and films, like Pulp Fiction.
Supreme Admiral
Captain
Then, answer me, John. Why haven't this generation like me take back what's rightfully ours? I'm tired of people who's using fifteen minutes of fame, who wanting to be so damn famous to be on tv!
I don't know how long will this generation is going to take back. Sheesh. Age of Disney is even more scarier than this. Disney is running by wrong people, I assume you.
I don't really feel "old". The time went by way faster than the 90s did though. Probably because it's the first decade I can really remember from start to finish.
Actually it ends in 2011.
Nope. Millennium started in 2000, not 2001.
What year did the 80s start? Was it 1980 or 1981...? Hmmm...
Don't give me that 'we don't have a year 0' nonsense either.
The millennium started on whatever date you like.
First Millenium 1-1000 AD
Second Millenium 1001-2000 AD
That's it. No debate.
Until you're using Stardates or the Jewish or Chinese calendars, in which case a thousand orbits are still a thousand orbits. And I hope it's not too lonely in your universe.
However, using numeric decade labels 80's and 90's DO start with the year ending in "0". The 70's are 1970-1979 because it's based on how they're written numerically, not if they're the "first decade" or "second decade".
The 90's were 1990-1999.
But the last decade of the 20th Century was 1991-2000.
It's all in my new book: Off By One: Why Humans Can't Count.
--Ted
Nope, it started in 2001. You just have to be able to count to a hundred to figure it out. 
Even with 2001 as a starting date, the end of the first 10 years of the millennium would be 2010. The 2010s start in 2010, though.
1. Jan 2001 - Jan 2002
2. Jan 2002 - Jan 2003
3. Jan 2003 - Jan 2004
4. Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
5. Jan 2005 - Jan 2006
6. Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
7. Jan 2007 - Jan 2008
8. Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
9. Jan 2009 - Jan 2010
10. Jan 2010 - Jan 2011.
Thanks for playing.
