M.E. from wikipedia...

"Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft. Windows Me was the successor to Windows 98 and and pretty much sucked just as much as Windows 98."

On a more serious not I seem to remember ME in time somewhere too. Probably Microfuct propaganda in our brains.

Hey Ben : )
Are you thinking of CE? Common Era?
www.wisegeek.com/what-is-t...-dates.htm

Without knowing if the abbreviation exists and how it might be use, it would make sense that it could possible be a subsitute for A.D. or C.E.

But, Modern Era could just as easily have use in anthropology or history or sociology, referring to the Modern Era and the changes to human life from technology and such.


By the way, my two cents on the usage of year designations...

B.C.E. is meant to represent Before Common Era and replace Before Christ, thereby eliminating the religious implications.

C. E. is Common Era and meant to replace Anno Dominicus (spelling?), which is the Latin for Year of Our Lord.

So, it would seem self-defeating to use B.C.E. and A.D. together.

I, too, remember using the terms a bit when I was young and crazy and studying political science. I even seem to remember a term paper in which I spelled "women" as "womyn" to remove the implied derivative from men. Ah, to be young and imagine that you could erase all the historical bullshit from the world by changing some letters.