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The World in 2000 the first year of the new millennium

Only about 6 out of every 100 people on Earth used the internet in 2000. Think of a classroom with 30 kids. Just 2 of them could get online.

Life back then

The feared Y2K bug came and went on New Year's Day without doing much damage, and the new century started quietly. Facebook and YouTube did not exist, and the first iPhone was still seven years away. Google was a two-year-old startup, and renting a movie meant driving to a Blockbuster store. The PlayStation 2 and the Nokia 3310 both went on sale this year, and a new show called Survivor got half of America talking.

The year in 8 events

• 💻Jan 10 America Online agrees to buy Time Warner for about $165 billion. Faith in internet companies is at its peak.
• 📉Mar 10 The Nasdaq stock index peaks at 5,048. The dot-com bubble bursts soon after.
• 🏛️May 7 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as president of Russia.
• 🤝Jun 13 The leaders of North and South Korea meet in Pyongyang. It is the first meeting of its kind since the country was divided.
• 🗳️Jul 2 Vicente Fox wins Mexico's election and ends 71 years of rule by one party.
• 🕯️Jul 25 A Concorde jet crashes near Paris and 113 people die.
• 🏅Sep 15 The Summer Olympics open in Sydney, Australia.
• ⚖️Nov 7 The vote for US president between George W. Bush and Al Gore is too close to call. The fight over it lasts 36 days.

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