As this Brigada Today goes out the door, we’re a dozen days into the new year. As you look back on 2009… and, in fact, the entire decade, how will you remember the years from Jan. 1st, 2000 to Dec. 31st, 2009? Let me give you some choices… so in the Comment box below, you can just put the letter for your answer.

  • a) social networking (Facebook)
  • b) text messaging
  • c) blogging
  • d) 2 wars
  • e) reality TV
  • f) Destruction of the World Trade Center
  • g) Election of the USA’s first black president
  • h) Darfur
  • i) Rap music
  • j) Y2K (not)
  • k) The fact that the decade never developed a ‘tag name’ of its own?
  • L) YouTube
  • m) AD2000 & Beyond ended and, essentially, nothing took its place
  • n) 2 recessions
  • o) cell phones
  • p) ipod
  • q) Wikipedia
  • r) apathy
  • s) “24” (the TV show)
  • t) Red Sox winning the World Series (2004)
  • u) earthquakes
  • v) the tsunami
  • w) Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize
  • x) Al Gore predicting global warming
  • y) Al Gore saying he created the Internet (on the eve of the decade)
  • (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp)
  • z) [ what’s *your* answer?   “other” ]