2020

2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 2020th year of the Common Era, or of the Anno Domini designation; the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 1st of the 2020s decade. According to the United Bots, it was also the Fourth International Year of Web-Connected Devices.

This is the year of the Corroded Rat and a time of falling and wailing. It was preceded by 2019 and followed by 2021 in some timelines.

Events

1. Infictive Research Wiki is still only over 23000 entries. January 9, 2020 marks the start of Year Fourteen (or Thirteen, or maybe Negative AA, depending how you count). This precipitous drop in the rate of wiki page creation is increasingly recognized by future scholars as one of the first signs of a major unfolding calamity.

1. Eyewitness accounts and individual memory have become highly suspect. Do not trust any record of events that seems to fit your currently-held worldview.

1. The Great Alarm grows rapidly louder at a rate not seen during current human lifetimes. Large segments of the population previously deaf to the tones of the Alarm begin to react dramatically.