y-2kとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Y2k

語源

Abbreviated from "year 2000", with "K" standing for 1000, as in the prefix kilo- though capital K as a prefix is often used as x1024. The correct S.I. Prefix is lowercase k.

名詞

Y2K (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of year 2000.
   • 2021, Lindsay Steenberg, Are You Not Entertained?: Mapping the Gladiator Across Visual Media, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:

     Y2K and the technological apocalypse that never was / It is at the turn of the millennium that the anxieties around postfeminist masculinity (registered by figures such as Maximus) fused with nostalgic anxieties around technology. […] Arguably the most significant pattern to emerge in the cinema of Y2K is that of entanglement between threatened masculinity and nostalgia.

   • 2023 February 26, DeAsia Paige, “Black hairstyles: Taking a stand against white beauty standards”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, volume 75, number 57, pages E1 and E8:

     Inside are fun, Instagrammable settings that are a nod to nostalgic trends in Black culture, including an installation of a pink bedroom featuring posters of Y2K-era artists like Destiny’s Child, Brandy and Ashanti, and a stage filled with covers of Black hair magazines.

   • 2023 March 5, Maura Judkis, “American Girl says ’90s are ancient history; girls agree”, in The Herald-Sun, pages 1C and 3C:

     Things like the Tamagotchi, an inflatable coach, a Pizza Hut Book It coupon, and a desktop computer with a CD-ROM and dial-up modem noises. Isabel and Nicki Hoffman, the two new dolls (twins!) are Seattleites on the cusp of Y2K.

2. (computing, by metonymy) Millennium bug.
   1. (by extension) The Y2K scare.

派生語

• Y2K aesthetic
• Y2K bug
• Y2K pink
• Y2K problem
• Y2K38

形容詞

Y2K (comparative more Y2K, superlative most Y2K)

1. (aesthetic) Pertaining to the Y2K aesthetic.

参考

• millennium bug
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

Further reading

• Y2K on Wikipedia.Wikipedia