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== Real Life ==
* Aircraft:
** Possibly the oldest example: the Reggiane Re.2000 fighter, which first flew in 1939.
** The [[wikipedia:Mirage 2000|Mirage 2000]].
** The Eurofighter Typhoon was known as the EF 2000 for a while.
*** It started out as "Jäger 90" (Hunter 90, fighter [aircraft] 90) in Germany.
* The ''Annals of Improbable Research'' kept a collection of these under the heading "Project AIRHead 2000".
* For some horrible reason, number plates in the Australian state of New South Wales had "Towards 2000" as their state motto for a while.
* [[Windows]] 2000, named after its year of release. Although this was dropped in the desktop versions with XP and Vista, the server versions kept the year theme with Windows Server 2003, 2008, and
* This trend was once annoyingly common in Internet usernames, to the point where ''Yahoo!'' would offer this (and 2001) as an alternative to a taken name during registration.
* Appliance manufacturers also seem fond of this: the ''TurboFry 2000'', among others.
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