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Exactly ten years ago, we were recovering from ringing in the new year millennium in style — with Prince‘s 1999 song ironically cued up throughout our homemade party mixed tapes (burning CDs and iPods were not yet on the scene.) But this wasn’t just any New Year’s Eve — this was the night when we escaped the ghosts in the digital machine who threatened to get their collective revenge on a civilization grown lazy with technological advances. How did they plan to attack? Via the mysterious and scary computer glitch known as Y2K!

the aughts

As the decade’s close drew nearer it seemed prudent to actually call it something, and the Oh-Ohs, Double-Os and Two-Thousands frankly sound dumb. “The Aughts” is nice, clean, short, simple and definitive, and also sounds vaguely British which means it’s classy. That is why, here at Mediaite, our end-of-decade retrospective series is called…The Aughts. This new decade has snuck up on us, but we’re not letting the old one go just yet.

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We’re less than two months from the end of the decade and up to now, the media has been suspiciously quiet about it. Newsweek is kicking off their celebration of The Aughts and welcoming 2010 with a new website: The Decade In Rewind and a 7-minute review of the last 10 years — fast-talking and nostalgic.