11:11

I just realized that a year from today will be 11/11/11 and at 11:11, it will be 11:11 on 11/11/11, the perfect day for a surprisingly large number of my friends. How did the tradition of wishing on 11:11 start up? All these things are so weird but once I start asking questions I can't stop, like how did the English language come about, and who invented the word banana?