The Birth of the Internet

Well, you might have thought that you knew how the  Internet started, but here's the TRUE story .... 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 Dot. 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. And 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 called Must Send Drum Over Sound (MSDOS), and she  so developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures - ..... Hebrew To The People (HTTP) But this success did arouse envy. A man named Maccabia  did secrete himself inside Abraham's drum and began to siphon off some  of Abraham's business. But he was soon discovered, arrested and prosecuted -  for insider trading. 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. And indeed 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 drum  to locate things around the countryside. It soon became known as....  God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE). And that is how it all began.  So now you know.

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