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The Aughties 

The decade from 2000 to 2009. A play on the phrase "the eighties" and the word aught, meaning "zero".
USA Today leads with new Census data showing immigrants who've arrived in the Aughties have come with slightly more education than in previous decades. (From Eric Umansky's article "Oui Are Family" in Slate Magazine 2/22/05).
The Aughties by bolonium February 22, 2005

the noughties 

Disappointing sequel to the nineties and preview of how bad the 21st century was going to be.
The noughties was when 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the 2008 recession happened. What an awful decade! Thank God it's over.