Originally Posted by
BobbysWorld
Honestly, I'm not sure about how the timelines are officially being labeled, all I know is the current 2099 stuff is being treated as though its directly in the future of this current 616 timeline. Orlando did an Ask Me Anything thread on twitter right before the start of his 2099 stuff, and when people asked about the living/dead status of various 2099 characters, he specified that all his stuff was picking up directly from the end of the last 2099 stories, springing out of the stuff with the Phalanx and Doom and the Savage Land, and all those previous events. So characters who died in the earlier 2099 stories were still dead in these new ones, etc. So again, I can't speak to how they're labeling timelines or periods, but it seems there's definitely been an effort to treat all pre-existing 2099 stories as though they're part of the same universe as the current 2099 stories.