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[fw]

I came across the following passage the other day.

The song, "Schoolhouse on the Hill," goes, "The schoolhouse on the hill ..., happy days are gathered around me still, I never can forget." It is from a book of American school songs, written in the early 1900s. In the 1930s, a musical group named the Carter Family recorded the song, which later became very popular through the new medium of radio.

Which does �the 1900s� above mean, #1 or #2?
1. from 1900 to 1909
2. from 1900 to 1999

I think it means #2, but I'm not sure.

[2006]

You are right; it means #2.