Backbytes - What about the noughties?

The issues created by the millennium date change and European monetary union are keeping the programming community well and truly busy. But Backbytes has discovered a linguistic problem which comes after the year 2000. How are we going to refer to the first 10 years of the next century?

Having had the relative simplicity of the 70s, 80s and 90s, the 00s somehow doesn't sound right. Thankfully, the Internet is helping to stimulate debate about how we should refer to, say, companies at the leading edge of 00s technology, or even 00s man.

Some have suggested the term 'millenniums', or 'the 2000s', some have even considered we should call them 'the Bond years', after 007. One enterprising chap - Larry to his friends - has come up with 'NC', meaning new century, but the jury is still out on that one.

Backbytes would like to hear your suggestion. Who knows, it may just catch on.