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A Farewell to Those Dorky 00 New Year’s Glasses

2003 A Farewell to Those Dorky 00 New Years GlassesThis New Year’s Eve, you might notice a familiar old friend missing, as the third digit of 2010 sounds the death knell for those novelty 00 glasses.  I imagine a bunch of 14 year olds in China lost their jobs last December as the final batch of 2009 glasses were cranked out.

The bummer is that just around last year they had finally gone from stupid to ironically cool. And now they’re gone. Here’s a look back at the past decade’s New Year’s fad:

2000

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The tradition begins.

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