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Subject: Birth of the Internet
> According to the Bible
> In ancient Israel ,
> it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take
> unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy. And Dot Com
> was a comely woman, Large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg.
> Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com. And she said unto
> Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town
> with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
> And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags
> short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?" And Dot replied,
> "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send
> messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling
> you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and
> delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
> Abraham thought long and
> decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums
> rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he
> had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent. To
> prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were
> saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It
> was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed
> a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP).
>
> And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the
> greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic
> Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.
>
> And lo, the land
> was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of
> drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that
> enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off
> every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made
> that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks. And
> Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by
> others."
>
> And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as
> it came to be known. He said, "We need a name that reflects what we
> are." And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
> "YAHOO," said Abraham. And because it was Dot's idea, they named it
> YAHOO Dot Com.
>
> Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious
> Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's
> drums to locate things around the countryside. It soon became known as
> God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).
>
> That is how it all began. And that's the truth
> According to the Bible
> In ancient Israel ,
> it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take
> unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy. And Dot Com
> was a comely woman, Large of breast, broad of shoulder and long of leg.
> Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com. And she said unto
> Abraham, her husband, "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town
> with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
> And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags
> short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?" And Dot replied,
> "I will place drums in all the towns and drums in between to send
> messages saying what you have for sale, and they will reply telling
> you who hath the best price. The sale can be made on the drums and
> delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS)."
> Abraham thought long and
> decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums
> rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he
> had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent. To
> prevent neighboring countries from overhearing what the drums were
> saying, Dot devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It
> was known as Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed
> a language to transmit ideas and pictures - Hebrew To The People (HTTP).
>
> And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the
> greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic
> Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.
>
> And lo, the land
> was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of
> drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that
> enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off
> every drum maker in the land. Indeed he did insist on drums to be made
> that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks. And
> Dot did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by
> others."
>
> And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as
> it came to be known. He said, "We need a name that reflects what we
> are." And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators."
> "YAHOO," said Abraham. And because it was Dot's idea, they named it
> YAHOO Dot Com.
>
> Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious
> Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's
> drums to locate things around the countryside. It soon became known as
> God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE).
>
> That is how it all began. And that's the truth
