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Preparation for the Y10K problem. Five-digit years is something the Long Now Foundation started using to encourage people to think longer term:

https://longnow.org/about/

lol that's ridiculous. We'll either have wiped ourselves out by then or be so far beyond problems like Y2K that it's a ridiculous thing to worry about

More fun than worrying about global pandemics or nuclear meltdowns!

Holy hell, talk about premature. That's 100 lifetimes away.

Is it still April 1st?

> That's 100 lifetimes away.

Such a pessimist!

Fine, 0100 lifetimes away.

It’s promoted by the Long Now Foundation, as a way of encouraging thinking on 10,000 year time scales.

https://longnow.org/

That's so -idiotic- short term thinking. 10k years is nothing in the timescale of the universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation