Well there is a 2000's section now, so I fail to see how it doesn't belong here.
If it was back in 2011 and before when there was only up to the 70's-90's sections then I'd say there's a problem.

Anyone can submit an article on practically anything, regardless of topic, time frame, quality, etc. The readers hold the power to filter these articles with voting. If more readers are into 00s stuff than those who aren't then the articles will stay on the front page. If more people feel the article is inappropriate or lacking, then the can vote it to the back pages. It's just a matter of majority. Apparently more people still hold that the 00s are too recent giving most of the 00s articles are in the negatives. Basically we all need to chill out and let nature weed out things.

The difference between 2000 and 2005 is 5 years - that's half a decade, not five minutes.

You're just assuming what I was hoping to achieve

I just want to make sure that there are enough differences between 2000 and 2013 to make it "safe" to post a year 2000 article on here.

So what were you saying?

2000 is fourteen years ago...but 2005 is only nine.