Details, Explanation and Meaning About 2000s

2000s Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2000, see the links below.

Millennia: 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium - 4th millennium

Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s

Years:

Table of contents
1 The decade as a whole
2 Events and trends
3 People
4 Arts and entertainment
5 Music

The decade as a whole

  • In keeping with naming decades (cf. 1990s "the Nineties", 1980s "the Eighties", etc.), the decade of the 2000s lacks an accepted name. A widely accepted term may not come about until the decade has ended. However no such term exists for the decades of the 1900s and 1910s. A few suggestions for the 2000s decade are:
    • "the 0-0s", usually pronounced as "the oh-ohs". This pronunciation sounds like "uh oh", an expression of dismay; this similarity is no doubt intentional.
    • "the 2Ks", a term that is rooted in the slang of the times. K is shorthand for the Greek prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K means 2000. In popular culture, the years of the decade are already being named according to this slang. For example, the year 2003 is referred to as 2K3. The "2K" term probably has its popular origins in the heavily-hyped Y2K bug that began the decade.
    • "the Aughts" (or "Oughts"), keeping with the practice of the twentieth century.
    • "the Nillies", derived from the term "nil", meaning nothing or zero.
    • "the Noughties", referring to the nought, or zero, as the decade indicator; the word-play on "naughty" is intentional.
    • "the Twenty Hundreds", though this could be confused with a name for the century.
    • "the zeroes"
  • The United Nations General Assembly declared the (mostly overlapping) decade of 2001-2010 as the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World".

Events and trends

People

World leaders

State leaders by year: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006...

Entertainers

Sports figures

Arts and entertainment

Music

#-C

D-L

M-P

R-S

T-Z

see also 2000s music groups, List of rock and roll albums in the 2000s, 2000s in India


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