Editing 2000 (section)

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[[File:2000 Events montage 16-grid version.jpg|right|From top to bottom, left to right: [[Kenya Airways Flight 431]] before it crashed off the Ivory Coast; an [[Air France]] [[Concorde]] similar to the one that [[Air France Flight 4590|crashed]] after takeoff from [[Charles de Gaulle Airport]] in [[Paris]]; a monumemt commemorating the [[Kursk submarine disaster]]; the aftermath of the [[USS Cole bombing]]; a [[Russian Armed Forces|Russian]] [[BTR-80]] destroyed by [[Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria|Chechen fighters]] during the [[Second Chechen War]]; heads of state meet for the [[Millennium Summit]]; people of the world, as seen here in [[Times Square]], celebrate the [[Millennium celebrations|New Millennium]]; the International Space Station in its infant form as seen from STS-97; the [[PlayStation 2]] releases, later becoming [[List of best-selling game consoles|the best-selling video game console of all time]]; supporters of [[Al Gore]] protesting for a recount of the [[2000 United States presidential election]]; the [[2000 Summer Olympics]] are held in Sydney, Australia; Israeli troops respond to the [[Second Intifada]]; a [[United States Air Force]] [[MH-53]] flies over the [[2000 Mozambique flood|Mozambique flood]] which killed 700–800 people; the Yugoslavian House of the Federal Assembly on fire during the [[overthrow of Slobodan Milošević]]; a rendering of the [[Nasdaq Composite]] Index showing the [[dot-com bubble]]; a memorial for the [[Kaprun disaster]].|300x300px|thumb]]
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'''2000''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MM]]''') is a [[century leap year|century]] [[leap year]] [[leap year starting on Saturday|starting on a Saturday]], in accordance with the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It was the 100th and final year of the [[20th Century]], 2000th year of the [[Anno Domini]] or the [[Common Era]], the 1st year of the [[2000s (decade)|2000s]], the 25th and final leap year of the [[20th century]], and the 1000th and final year of the [[2nd millennium]].-->

2000 was designated as the [[International Year for the Culture of Peace]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/ |title=2000: International Year for the Culture of Peace |website=UNESCO |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124051400/http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/ |archive-date=January 24, 2001}}</ref> and the World [[Mathematics|Mathematical]] Year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newton.ac.uk/wmy2kposters/ |title=Isaac Newton Maths posters in the London Underground |access-date=July 23, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010060459/http://www.newton.ac.uk/wmy2kposters/ |archive-date=October 10, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Popular culture]] holds the year 2000 as the first year of the [[21st century]] and the [[3rd millennium]]{{Citation needed|date=January 2024|reason=}},<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1095427.html|title=World: Which Is The True Third Millennium Year, 2000 Or 2001?|first=Eugen|last=Tomiuc|work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=April 9, 2008|via=www.rferl.org}}</ref> because of a tendency to group the years according to [[decimal]] values, as if non-existent [[year zero]] was counted. According to the [[Gregorian calendar]], these distinctions fall to the year [[2001]], because the [[1st century]] was retroactively said to start with the year [[AD 1]]. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (For further information, see [[century]] and [[millennium]].)

The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "[[kilo-|kilo]]" which means "thousand").<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.calendarhome.com/clink/y2000.html |title=Y2K, After the Hype |publisher=CalendarHome.com |access-date=September 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831075015/http://calendarhome.com/clink/y2000.html |archive-date=August 31, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Tina |last=Kelley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/27/nyregion/y2k-stands-for-the-year-2000-now-that-wasn-t-really-difficult-was-it.html |title='Y2K' Stands for the Year 2000. Now That Wasn't Really Difficult, Was It? |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 27, 1999 |access-date=September 15, 2013 |archive-date=October 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002222719/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/27/nyregion/y2k-stands-for-the-year-2000-now-that-wasn-t-really-difficult-was-it.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The year 2000 was the subject of [[Year 2000 problem|Y2K concerns]], which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded existing, software. Some even obtained "Y2K certification". As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.

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