year dot

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,British,Ireland)A very long timeago, from the beginning or as far back as one can remember.Synonym:(Australia, NZ)day dotThat hat dates from theyear dot.1989June, Phil South, “Rage Hard”, inYour Sinclair magazine‎[1], archived fromthe originalon10 March 2012:Disk interfaces have been around since theyear dot, as people soon realised that the microdrive was unreliable, unstable and generally rubbish for the storage of anything, useless except as a rather small beermat.

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