User blog comment:Fadingsilverstar16/Big Giant Last Blog Post of 2009 + Gigi's 1000th edit!/@comment-1637108-20100101210751

Heh, it wasn't the US, or any person in modern times, that predicted the end of the world in any of those occasions. ^-^U

The whole "2012 is the year the world ends" thing was predicted by the Mayans. It's based on some ancient prophecy or something, and the only reason people lend any credibility to it is because the Mayans are (more like were, actually) supposedly good at predicting stuff. They did predict the arrival of the Spaniards and all.

The dates 6/06/06 and 2007 are related to Genesis or the Bible or something (but I'm not the best person to rely on that, considering I was raised by an atheist and live in a rather non-religious country), and the 2000 thing was mostly because people thought computers would reset to 1000 or something and everything would stop working.

Plus just go back far enough in history and you'll find someone going all "ZOMG the world is ending in 666/1000/1666!" People have been predicting the end of the world since it started. XD