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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5043738" data-attributes="member: 75712">As for accuracy, yeah, the decade is technically 2001 through 2010.  This is because the very first year AD was 0001, not 0000. So the first decade was 0001 - 0010, not 0000 - 0009.  The rest, as they say, is history.Even though it's not technically correct, most people commonly think of a decade as the years xxx0-xxx9, mainly because that's how we group them when we talk about them with words: we say "the Thirties", not "the decade starting in 1931 and ending in 1940".So this decade will likely be remembered as 2000-20009, and will be called something like "the Aughts", "the Zeroes" or (my absolute least favorite, but the one I keep seeing in media lately) "the Noughties". *shudder*  (Please, historians of the future, anything but "the Noughties".)</blockquote>