Everyone is going to be saying how Bitstrips such as fad and whatnot. But they've been around since 2007 (see Founder's LinkedIn <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-kennedy/6/395/522" rel="nofollow">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-kennedy/6/395/522</a>)<p>It's only recently that they've had a big spike. <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitstrip" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitstrip</a>