WOW, I always wanted to know. John
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 25, 2017, at 3:30 PM, tom <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Biblical Account of the Beginning of the Internet > > Please do not Google or check this with Snopes. They will lie to you. Trust > me! > > 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' drum heads 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. > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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