I don't remember how or why, but somehow my sister convinced me that everyone skipped the year 2000 because scientific evidence proved that the Earth was older than that, and skipped right on to 2001... I believed her for above three years. Seriously XD
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i thought aliens would come to earth year 2000 because of a commercial were an alien ate a hot dog— ulle
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- I used to watch the clouds blowing across the sky and think I was seeing evidence of the earth's rotation.— Dave T
- i used to think technology was "flying cars" and that we would have them by the year 2000.— josieg
- I used to believe that when the year 2000 came around we would all turn into robots - how silly of me— Andy
- In the mid 90's, I used to believe that babies who were born in the year 2000 would live forever.Anon