Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, and won various cup competitions during the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s.

In the Israel Defense Forces most of the M16A1 rifles were replaced by the M4A1 carbine as the standard issued rifle in the early 2000s, although they remained in service with reserve soldiers and less combatant troops.

The use of DNA microarrays that have come into widespread use in the late 1990s and early 2000s is more akin to the reverse procedure, in that they involve the use of isolated DNA fragments affixed to a substrate, and hybridization with a probe made from cellular RNA.

In the 2000s the United States Postal Service has been installing Automated Postal Centers in many locations both in post offices ( for when they are closed or busy ) and in retail locations.

After they married in 1996, their relationship went through on-again and off-again periods in the 2000s.

In the 2000s, ABC began to revitalize the primetime soap opera format with shows such as Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Private Practice and most recently Revenge and Ringer, which they co-produced with CBS for the CW.

Trackballs were occasionally used in e-sports prior to the mainstreaming of optical mice in the early 2000s because they were more reliable than ball mice, but now they are extremely rare because optical mice offer superior speed and precision.

According to The Guardian, music styles during the 2000s changed very little from how they were at last half of the 1990s.

Other sources have estimated that in the 2000s they formed " about 5 percent of the population " of Jamaica, or have conjectured that " there are perhaps as many as 100, 000 Rastafarians in Jamaica ".

Sony Betamax was unable to shrink that form any further, so instead they developed Video8 / Hi8 which was in direct competition with the VHS-C / S-VHS-C format throughout the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.

Discussion lists were popular in the 1990s and early 2000s but their usage has declined in favour of other techniques such as web forums as they provide better threading, searching, etc.

These were often drawn by Mike Pearce and Kev F. Sutherland though in the late 2000s they were moved into the comic's sister publication BeanoMAX where they were drawn by Nigel Parkinson.

All economic sectors ranging from manufacturing and agriculture to tourism and finance, declined sharply after independence from Portugal in 1975, but picked up in the 2000s after the end of the Mozambican Civil War, although they are still performing well below potential.

The multi-award-winning four-piece group rapidly gained international popularity in the early 2000s and by the end of the decade they had become one of the most popular children's groups in the world.

Something For Kate ( or SFK as they are also known ) is one of the most popular and enduring Australian alternative / rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s, garnering nominations for 11 ARIA Music Awards throughout its career.

# Scientific workflow system: Found wide acceptance in the fields of bioinformatics and cheminformatics in the early 2000s, where they successfully met the need for multiple interconnected tools, handling of multiple data formats and large data quantities.

The debate over the banning of " Justify My Love " by the Canadian music video network MuchMusic led to the launching in 1991 of Too Much 4 Much, a series of occasional, late-night specials ( still being aired in the early 2000s ) in which videos officially banned by MuchMusic were broadcast, followed by panel discussion regarding why they were removed.

Though Native Americans comprise less than 1 % of the city ’ s population, they doubled in the 2000s, and combined with Union City ’ s Native American ’ s comprise 38 % of the county ’ s Native American population.

They were also the first franchise to appear in the Super Bowl in four different decades ( 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s ), the 1990s was the only decade that they didn't appear in the Super Bowl.

The oldies format was an attempt to recreate the station's history as a popular music station ( and was part of a nationwide fad of " real oldies " formats on AM radio stations in the early 2000s ( decade )), and while they maintained the official WWKB calls for station identification, they also played the original " WKBW Buffalo " jingles and featured many of the classic WKBW jocks including Armstrong and Neaverth.

These revenues, and the wealth they brought, were lost in the 2000s when corporations were made to pay taxes directly to the national government, rather than the local government.

The 2000s has been a dark age for the club as they have only won one state title.

England began to recover in the early 2000s and were undefeated in Test matches through the 2004 calendar year.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

Telecom companies, such as Afghan Wireless and Roshan, began boasting rapid increase in cellular phone usage in the mid 2000s.

Traditional cocktails and gin began to make a comeback in the 2000s.

Since the 2000s, guitar amplifiers began having built-in multi-effects units or digital modeling effects.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, HTTPS began to see widespread use for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.

In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including mismanagement and corruption, the imposition of sanctions, such as among others the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, following the switch from Willing Buyer, Willing Seller to Fast Track land reform.

In the late 2000s, Kiribati began to strengthen its relations with Cuba.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

In the 1990s and 2000s the personal defense weapon, a compact submachine gun-like firearm which can fire armor-piercing, higher-powered ammunition began to replace the machine pistol as a self-defence side arm for artillery crews, tank crews, and helicopter pilots ( for more details, see the section below on military tactics ).

Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on elements.

In the mid-to-late 2000s artists and hackers began to rediscover pen plotters as quirky, customizable output devices.

Starting in the 2000s ( decade ), genre shows began to offer more prominent female characters.

Beginning in the early 2000s, many ski manufacturers began designing skis and bindings together, creating an integrated binding system.

In the 2000s, Trip-Hop began expanding its influence more prominently into other genres.

A lot of producers began to show their Trip-Hop influence with several albums that came out in the early 2000s.

Extraction of natural gas began in the 2000s.

In the late 2000s, Vanuatu began to strengthen its relations with Cuba.

The 2000s was a decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.

In December 2009, the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) announced that the 2000s may have been the warmest decade since records began in 1850, with four of the five warmest years since 1850 having occurred in this decade.

In the 2000s, the Weiquan movement began in the PRC, seeking to advance citizens ' rights partly by petitioning for enforcement of existing laws, and partly through activism.

With the Diamond Rio player in 1998, the mass market began to eschew physical media in favor of file-based systems, rendering cassette-and disc-based formats obsolete by the end of the 2000s.

ABC Radio began using the SEDAT satellite distribution system in the mid-1980s, switching to Starguide in the early 2000s.