Nice while it lasted

As I was getting into bed the other night, a phrase popped into my head. I turned the light back on and wrote it on my whiteboard. Today I decided to google it and see if someone had already said it. No matches. I'm going to write it for you now, so when someone searches for it in some distant age, they will find that it first appeared at 17 Word Street in the second decade of the third millennium.

Literacy -- just another flash in the pan