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That was a synthesized example of how they insert years seemingly for the sake of formatting it weirdly. Now that I’ve pointed it out to you, next time you see this come up, ask yourself if anyone else would have mentioned a date in that context.

If I were them, I might end this comment with “I haven’t seen it done like that since I first got online, in around 01993.”



It's a bit like vegetarians/vegans or people that don't have TV.

It usually gets dropped in the first five minutes of meeting and after that it gets repeated if it is initially ignored.




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