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* {{Music/Hum}}'s second album was ''Electra 2000''

* {{Music/Hum}}'s first album was ''Elektra 2000''

* * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' has Vox 3000, the artificial intelligence that guards Jimmy's lab. Interestingly, it was originally called Vox ''2000'' in the [[Recap/RunawayRocketboy pilot]], since the episode itself was released in 1998.

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': InUniverse, Gruntilda has a broom called the Lardmaster 2000.

* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' In "[[Recap/SonicBoomS1E45RobotBattleRoyale Robot Battle Royale]]", when Knuckles decides to become an inventor like Tails, he invents the Remote 2000, which is really just a stick he uses to turn light switches on and off. He then gets ideas for the Scissors 2000 to cut things and the Toaster 2000 to toast bread. Tails is quick to point out that [[ItsBeenDone all Knuckles is really doing is adding the number 2000 to things that already exist]].

* [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Windows 2000]], which was in fact released in the year 2000.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}} 2000'' for the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, a 1994 sequel to the original 1981 arcade game. Atari followed up with ''VideoGame/{{Defender}} 2000'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battlezone|1980}} 2000''. In turn, ''Tempest 2000'' itself was also followed up by ''Tempest 3000'' and ''[=TxK=]'', the latter of which became a more official sequel as ''Tempest 4000''.

* ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 3050'' for the UsefulNotes/SuperNES. Though it is set in the year 3050.

* The Atari Video Computer System (VCS) is perhaps better known by its later name: the UsefulNotes/Atari2600. There are also its successors, the Atari 5200 and the Atari 7800.

* The UsefulNotes/NeoGeo game ''Super Baseball 2020'', released 1991.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Speedball}} Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe]]'', one of the computer-controlled teams is named "Rage 2000." The game also received a VideoGameRemake for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 2000 titled ''Speedball 2100''.
* ''Galaxy 5000'', a futuristic VehicularCombat game by Creator/{{Activision}} for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem.

* [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows 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, 2012, and 2016. Averted with Windows ME, short for Millennium Edition. This was the last DOS-based Windows (2000 was NT-based, and XP merged the two lines). Also played straight with its productivity suite counterpart, ''Office 2000'' (which would stick to year naming afterwards).

* Somewhat played straight: UsefulNotes/Xbox360. They couldn't just call it the Xbox 2 because that would put them a step behind Sony; no, they had to have 180 2s to beat Sony's 3. Of course, their other option was Xenon, so maybe it was for the best. [[StealthPun It's because it's a revolution]]. Mind you, the Revolution was named the Wii. And as any number of Internet wags will tell you, turning 360 degrees leaves you right back where you started.
* Inverted by the UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which uses a comically ''low'' number rather than a comically ''high'' one. The ubiquitous joke being that it's two big steps backward from the third Xbox, and three steps behind the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, or just 359 steps back from its predecessor. The marketing reason is that the 360 is supposed to revolve around your entertainment, while the Xbox One is supposed to be the ''one'' device for all your entertainment needs (in addition to game playing, disc-watching and streaming, you can also hook it up to your cable/satellite/telco box and watch it through the One). It also ties in with the other "One"-prefixed products of Microsoft's ([=OneDrive=], [=OneNote=], etc.), making it one of their equivalents to Apple's [=iThing=], too.

* ''{{VideoGame/Fallout}}'':

This trope rose to prominence in the lead-up to the 21st century, because in [[TheNineties the late 1990s]] people were excited about the upcoming year 2000. As part of the Information Age boom, many associate the TurnOfTheMillennium with advances in technology and improved power sources, which would lead to a number of examples overlapping with AnnualTitle (works that are named based on proximity to the year of release). People began releasing new properties of old works with 2000 as part of the name, to attract audiences to the "new and updated" release. While naming a work 2000 now is ''passé'' (since 2000 is in the past), years like 2040 and 3000 continue to collect examples that showcase "futurism" (because they haven't happened yet).

* ''Magazine/Mondo2000'': TheNineties gave us this CyberPunk {{UsefulNotes/subculture}} magazine. According to the editors, the name was deliberately chosen to give the magazine an "expiration date", embracing the fact that this morning's "Cutting Edge" is tomorrow's {{Zeerust}}.

** Farfisa's biggest home organ in [[TheSeventies the late 1970s]] was the Maharani 2000, successor to a similar model named just Maharani.

** Japanese synth manufacturers seemed to love four-digit numbers for their virtual-analog synths in [[TheNineties the late '90s]]: Roland JP-8000 (named after the Jupiter-8) and Korg [=MS2000=] (named after the MS-20).

* Creator/WilliamsElectronics' "Pinball 2000" platform, which was their last pinball platform before leaving the pinball business in 1999. It integrated a video screen into pinball. Ironically, after 1999, pinball went right back to using the familiar dot matrix displays that they had been using for most of TheNineties, largely because Williams went out of business after releasing only two Pinball 2000 tables (''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'' and ''Pinball/StarWarsEpisodeI'').

* ''Franchise/GIJoe'': During TheEighties, this action figure line featured a subteam called [[http://yojoe.com/action/subteams/battleforce2000.shtml Battle Force 2000]] whose purpose was to test experimental, futuristic weaponry and vehicles.

* In TheEighties, one school's chosen [[PublicServiceAnnouncement anti-drug curriculum]] had a goal of making society drug-free by the year 2000. [[spoiler:It didn't work.]]

* The Northern German holiday resort Ostseebad [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damp,_Germany Damp]], built in the early [[TheSeventies 70s]], used to be named Damp 2000 originally.

* A variation, ''Series/SaleOfTheCentury'' in Australia was briefly re-named ''Sale of the '''New''' Century'' in 2000.

* In the DVD-exclusive ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "Comic Book Movie", Strong Bad refers to the Hollywood cliche of [[HellBentForLeather putting comic book superheroes in one color, head-to-toe leather, regardless of whether they wear it in the comic,]] as "[=LeatherQuest=] 2000".

* ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'': In "Patang Hurdang", Samosa builds an air glider called the Glider Launcher Samosa 2000 to get Vada out of the sky. When that one fails to work, he follows it up with the Glider Launcher Samosa 5000 and the Glider Launcher Samosa 10000.

* ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeed: Porsche Unleashed'' was called ''[[{{MarketBasedTitle}} Need for Speed 2000]]'' in Germany due to its release date.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}} 2000'' for the UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, a 1994 sequel to the original 1981 arcade game. Atari followed up with ''VideoGame/{{Defender}} 2000'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battlezone|1980}} 2000''.
** ''Tempest 2000'' itself was also followed up by ''Tempest 3000'' and ''[=TxK=]'', the latter of which became a more official sequel as ''Tempest 4000''.

* The Atari Video Computer System (VCS) is perhaps better known by its later name: the UsefulNotes/Atari2600.
** Its successors, the Atari 5200 and the Atari 7800.

* ''VideoGame/TaikoNoTatsujin'' has '''22''' songs where the title ends with 2000. [[http://taikotime.blogspot.fr/2010/08/namco-original-showcase-2000-songs.html A complete list of the songs can be found here.]]
** Then there is the AprilFoolsDay special song ''Yokuderu 15300''.[[labelnote:Explanation]]It is simply ''Yokuderu 2000'', but sped up [[GoroawaseNumber 7.65]] times.[[/labelnote]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', for its 2000 season, suffixed the titles of the first four episodes with "2000" as a parody of this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s pilot episode was called "Space Pilot 3000", as the hero is cryonically frozen for just under one thousand years on the turn of the century.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "Toga! Toga! Toga! 2000!" (Itself something of a casting/Landis-sequel reference to ''Blues Brothers 2000''.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has a electronics shop called "Ripley 2000".
** Lampshaded in "The Refund" when Darwin asks "Why is it 2000 anyway? It's not like it's the future anymore."

* Possibly the oldest example: the Reggiane Re.2000 fighter, which first flew in 1939.
** The Re.2000 designation was a model number series assigned to Reggiane to avoid confusion with the C.200 model numbers assigned to Macchi and the G.50 model numbers assigned to Fiat.

* 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.

* [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows 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, 2012, and 2016.
** Averted with Windows ME, short for Millennium Edition. This was the last DOS-based Windows (2000 was NT-based, and XP merged the two lines).
** Also played straight with its productivity suite counterpart, ''Office 2000'' (which would stick to year naming afterwards).

** Montgomery Ward's store appliance brand was called Signature 2000. Ironically enough, 2000 ended up being the year Montgomery Ward declared bankruptcy.

** Inverted by the UsefulNotes/XboxOne, which uses a comically ''low'' number rather than a comically ''high'' one. The ubiquitous joke being that it's two big steps backward from the third Xbox, and three steps behind the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, or just 359 steps back from its predecessor.
** The marketing reason, if you want to believe them, is that the 360 is supposed to revolve around your entertainment, while the Xbox One is supposed to be the ''one'' device for all your entertainment needs (in addition to game playing, disc-watching and streaming, you can also hook it up to your cable/satellite/telco box and watch it through the One).
** It also ties in with the other "One"-prefixed products of Microsoft's ([=OneDrive=], [=OneNote=], etc.), making it one of their equivalents to Apple's [=iThing=], too.
* Lever 2000. Yeah it's soap with 2000 on it. Who knew?
** Hey, it's for ''all'' your 2000 parts. Now, count 'em!

** Thameslink 2000 at least fared better than "[[https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FDp4ywOmX4AETVFs.jpg Electric 2000]]", a 1990s proposal to electrify the trans-Pennine railways in the north of England that never got off the drawing board.

This trope rose to prominence in the lead-up to the 21st century, because in the late 1990's people were excited about the upcoming year 2000. As part of the Information Age boom, many associate the TurnOfTheMillennium with advances in technology and improved power sources, which would lead to a number of examples overlapping with AnnualTitle (works that are named based on proximity to the year of release). People began releasing new properties of old works with 2000 as part of the name, to attract audiences to the "new and updated" release. While naming a work 2000 now is ''passé'' (since 2000 is in the past), years like 2040 and 3000 continue to collect examples that showcase "futurism" (because they haven't happened yet).

* The PXL2000, an 80s/90s Fisher Price-made sub-branded camcorder made for kids that used ''audiocassette tapes'' to store video. Poorly. And every kid wanted one.