Old Testament
computing....
In ancient Israel ,
it came to pass that a trader by the name of
Abraham Com did take unto
himself a young wife by the name of Dorothy.
And Dot Com was a comely
woman, 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 neighbouring 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.
Jean Nathan in Poole, Dorset, UK
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