I'd say around 1995.

Isn't this basically the same question as 'when did the 90s end and the 00s begin?'  :D Let's just agree it was the year 2000 - or 2004, due to miscalculations in the calendar.

Isn't this basically the same question as 'when did the 90s end and the 00s begin?'  :D Let's just agree it was the year 2000 - or 2004, due to miscalculations in the calendar.


Actually no, because the '90s are not really 20th Century in nature; they're transitional. The '20s-'80s were the real 20th Century decades.

I think questions like 'when did the 60s start?' etc are sort of meaningless, because say 1969 may share some things in common with the 70s, yet be completely different in others.

I think questions like 'when did the 60s start?' etc are sort of meaningless, because say 1969 may share some things in common with the 70s, yet be completely different in others.


Well if we're going to get into that, I would say the '60s as we know them today actually occurred from the end of 1963 to the beginning of 1970.

Well if we're going to get into that, I would say the '60s as we know them today actually occurred from the end of 1963 to the beginning of 1970.


The 50s are another decade which seemed to 'carry on' after its time into the 60s, even though it was a generally characterless decade. But I'd have to say the 60s started late and ended late (not as much as the 80s, though). Socially and poltiically the big upheavels were between the three assasinations of J.F.K. in '63, Malcolm X in '65 and Martin Luther King in 1968. 80s carried on into 1993 at least, while the 90s stopped short somewhere between 1999-2001.

Pieces of it can be traced back to 1981/82ish (the relative start of the current era, at least in overall pop culture - eg: video games, MTV), or 1986 (the start of the Digital era), but overall I'd say 1992 or '93. Clinton getting elected, the '90s really taking off, and the very, very beginning of the Internet era seemed to be a huge change centurywise. This is when I started hearing about "a bridge to the 21st Century" too.

January 1st, 2000. (12:00:00am to be exact)  ::)


But seriously:
I've no idea, I just want to post the above ^

As mentioned before Donnie, I can't understand why you so obsessed with this kind of hypothetical chronologising (if that is such a word  :D).

However, IMO, the 21st century started on Sep. 11 2001 - it was so tragic, it changed the way we see things permanently on a world-wide scale.

My Spanish teacher, born in 1973, thinks it started in 1986 with Gorbachev and Reagan's conference and all the tech stuff that happened around then. I sort of agree, actually.

My Spanish teacher, born in 1973, thinks it started in 1986 with Gorbachev and Reagan's conference and all the tech stuff that happened around then. I sort of agree, actually.


I actually do too. Sure, the Clinton "21st Century" era didn't start until at least 1992, and the Internet World wasn't fully around until 1997, but I have to remind myself we're not talking just about decades, but two centuries - therefore it's just as logical for it to fall in the middle of a calendar decade as the ends of one. ;)

As I think about it more, 1985 to '86 felt like a jump too. '85 is almost like the last fully "20th Century/vinyl" year if you know what I mean.