From my office:

From: John Doe
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:04 AM
To: … All Staff
Subject: 40th Birthday Announcement

The Internet is 40 years old, happy birthday news article

my reply

From: 24601
Sent: September 2, 2009 9:38 AM
To: … All Staff
Subject: RE: 40th Birthday Announcement

Cake will be served in the lounge.

The Internet itself will be in attendance and will cut the cake.

Being incorporal, the attempt shall end in a horrible, yet amusing failure.  The video will be posted to YouTube, and the Internet will be mocked mercilessly.  Parody websites like “TheInternetCantDoThisHaHa.com” and “InternetGotNoHands.com” and “InternetFAIL.com” will be set up so the shame can live on forever.

It will also be pointed out that in “Internet Years”, the Internet is a wheezing centenarian already.

Parody websites aside, everybody will forget about it in about seven minutes — that being what our attention span has been reduced to by YouTube, Facebook and Twi….uh… What was I talking about again?