Until Tuesday 06/06/06, web surfers could gamble their money on the birth of the Beast, the Devil or whatever you want to call him… The Apocalypse didn’t come, but an Internet house of bets offered their players 100,000 – 1 to those who bet on the end of the world… Ok, it wasn’t very clear how the winners were going to receive the prize if they were not supposed to be alive. Maybe that was the funny part.

But, seriously, the date 06/06/06 made some people really nervous, hopeless and –of course- laugh! Reverend Felix Just, professor of theology at San Francisco University, created a web portal called 666 (the number of the Beast). There he posted the history, theology, mathematics and even 66 jokes related to the 06/06/06.

Many researchers believe that the Best is a coded reference to the despotic Roman emperor Nero, using letters of the Hebrew alphabet instead of numbers. In some manuscripts the number 616 appears instead of 666. Felix Just said that the Book of Revelation doesn’t announce the end of the world, but a cosmic battle among Good and Evil.

Because of fear, some people don’t want to have anything to do with the number 666. Ronald Reagan and his wife even changed the address of their house in California (where they moved after leaving the White House in 1989). It was 666 St. Cloud Road, and they changed it to 668.