[WEB4LIB] Re: Millenium Greetings

[JENNIFER A. HEISE]

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Nancy Sosna Bohm wrote:
> I am wondering if 2001 would have been the focus if not for the Y2K computer
> bug uproar.  After all, Stanley Kubrick didn't name the movie "2000, Space
> Odyssey." But then maybe that was just a matter of meter and rhythm.

Well, the Catholics (and it is arguably their numbering system) apparently
consider the Jubilee Year (2000th anniversary) to have begun at the
midnight mass for Christmas (5 days ago). But why does it matter either
way? Other than 'watching the numbers roll over' and the Y2K bug there's
no special significance to the second millenium except in religion.

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