People of the Internets UNITE!

Ok...this is so much cooler than having an e-mail show up on Neil Gaiman's site.

Time has named me you us The Person of the Year.
We rock.

"for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you."

Persons of the Year

* 1927: Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) (first person chosen)
* 1928: Walter Chrysler (1875–1940)
* 1929: Owen Young (1874–1962)
* 1930: Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) (first non-American and first non-white person)
* 1931: Pierre Laval (1883–1945)
* 1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
* 1933: Hugh Johnson (1882–1942)
* 1934: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) (2nd time)
* 1935: Haile Selassie I (1892–1975)
* 1936: Wallis Simpson (1896–1986) (first female chosen)
* 1937: Chiang Kai-Shek (1887–1975) and Soong May-ling (1898–2003) (first couple chosen)
* 1938: Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
* 1939: Joseph Stalin (1879–1953)
* 1940: Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
* 1941: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) (3rd time)
* 1942: Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) (2nd time)
* 1943: George Marshall (1880–1959)
* 1944: Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969)
* 1945: Harry Truman (1884–1972)
* 1946: James F. Byrnes (1879–1972)
* 1947: George Marshall (1880–1959) (2nd time)
* 1948: Harry Truman (1884–1972) (2nd time)
* 1949: Winston Churchill (1874–1965) (2nd time) ("Man of the Half-Century"
* 1950: The American Fighting-Man (first "abstract" chosen)
* 1951: Mohammed Mossadegh (1882–1967)
* 1952: Queen Elizabeth II (b. 1926)
* 1953: Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967)
* 1954: John Dulles (1888–1959)
* 1955: Harlow Curtice (1893–1962)
* 1956: Hungarian Freedom Fighter
* 1957: Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971)
* 1958: Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
* 1959: Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969) (2nd time)
* 1960: U.S. scientists (represented by Linus Pauling, Isidor Rabi, Edward Teller, Adam Fisher, Donald A. Glaser, Willard Libby, Robert Woodward, Charles Draper, William Shockley, Emilio Segre, John Enders, Charles Townes, George Beadle, James Van Allen and Edward Purcell)
* 1961: John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
* 1962: Pope John XXIII (1881–1963)
* 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
* 1964: Lyndon Johnson (1908–1973)
* 1965: William Westmoreland (1914–2005)
* 1966: The Generation Twenty-Five and Under
* 1967: Lyndon Johnson (1908–1973) (2nd time)
* 1968: The Astronauts; Frank Borman (b. 1928), Jim Lovell (b. 1928), William Anders (b. 1933)
* 1969: The Middle Americans
* 1970: Willy Brandt (1913–1992)
* 1971: Richard Nixon (1913–1994)
* 1972: Richard Nixon (1913–1994) (2nd time) and Henry Kissinger (b. 1923)
* 1973: John Sirica (1904–1992)
* 1974: King Faisal (1906–1975)
* 1975: American Women (represented by Betty Ford, Carla Hills, Ella Grasso, Barbara Jordan, Susie Sharp, Jill Conway, Billy Jean King, Susan Brownmiller, Addie Wyatt, Kathleen Byerly, Carol Sutton and Alison Cheek)
* 1976: Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)
* 1977: Anwar Sadat (1918–1981)
* 1978: Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997)
* 1979: Ayatollah Khomeini (1902–1989)
* 1980: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)
* 1981: Lech Wałęsa (b. 1943)
* 1982: The Computer (first non-human "abstract" chosen)
* 1983: Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) (2nd time) and Yuri Andropov (1914–1984)
* 1984: Peter Ueberroth (b. 1937)
* 1985: Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997) (2nd time)
* 1986: Corazón Aquino (b. 1933)
* 1987: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b. 1931)
* 1988: Endangered Earth ("Planet of the Year")
* 1989: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (b. 1931) (Man of the Decade)
* 1990: George H. W. Bush (b. 1924) ("The Two George Bushes")
* 1991: Ted Turner (b. 1938)
* 1992: Bill Clinton (b. 1946)
* 1993: The Peacemakers: Nelson Mandela (b. 1918), F.W. de Klerk (b. 1936), Yasser Arafat (1929–2004), and Yitzhak Rabin (1922–1995)
* 1994: Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)
* 1995: Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)
* 1996: David Ho (b. 1952)
* 1997: Andy Grove (b. 1936)
* 1998: Bill Clinton (b. 1946) (2nd time) and Kenneth Starr (b. 1946)
* 1999: Jeffrey P. Bezos (b. 1964)
* 2000: George W. Bush (b. 1946)
* 2001: Rudolph Giuliani (b. 1944)
* 2002: The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper of Worldcom (b. 1963), Sherron Watkins of Enron (b. 1959), and Coleen Rowley of the FBI (b. 1954)
* 2003: The American Soldier (2nd time)
* 2004: George W. Bush (b. 1946) (2nd time)
* 2005: The Good Samaritans: Bono (b. 1960), Bill Gates (b. 1955), and Melinda Gates (b. 1964)
* 2006: You

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