I have seen 2009 and it's name is Twitter...

Ivor Tossell, resident Web Guru at Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, has just reviewed history in Internet terms:

In 2004, the rise of blogs and their newfound political power gripped the public attention. In 2005, Wikipedia and the virtues of crowdsourcing announced themselves to the general public. In 2006, YouTube mushroomed into an on-line juggernaut, and ushered in a new age of user-generated cat videos. In 2007, Facebook went from college diversion to mainstream phenomenon. And now, having reached the end of 2008 … everybody is facing the imperative of signing up to Twitter, the service that, without shadow of a doubt, has just sashayed away with the crown. Twitter is a micro-blog – a blogging service where every entry is teeny-tiny. It’s rather like posting Facebook status updates, but mercifully liberated from the concept of “friendship”. On Twitter, you don’t have to be somebody’s friend to read their thoughts; you just have to be interested in what they have to say. Facebook is about people you used to know; Twitter is about people you’d like to know better. Twitter had already been around a while by the time it got big. It was somewhere around mid-2008 however, that it hit that critical mass of users able to bring it into the mainstream. A report by Hub-Spot estimates that Twitter is adding between 5,000 and 10,000 new users every day. In 2008. one writer tried serialising a novel on Twitter in 140-character chunks. There were Twitter proposals, Twitter breakups, Twitter parties and Twitter protests.

Suddenly, the alleged inclination of Y-Gens to resign by text seems so last year!