[3685] in Humor
HUMOR: How the Internet Began
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Jun 21 17:32:34 2002
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:31:25 -0400
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From: "Amy B. Chan & Jeremy D. Weiss" <slinkie@unix.chanweiss.com>
Forwarded From: <johlet@hotmail.com>
How the Internet Began (Original source unknown.)
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 had
been called AMAZON DOT COM.
She said unto Abraham, her husband, "Why doth thou travel far from town to
town with thy goods when thou can trade without ever leaving the 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 which hath the best price. And, the sale can be made on the
drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Saddle (UPS).
Abraham thought long and decided he would let DOT have her way with the
drums. The drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all
the goods he had at the top price without ever moving from his tent.
But, this success did arouse envy. A man named Maccabia did secret himself
inside Abraham's drum and was accused of 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
Siderites, or NERDS, for short.
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 the drum maker, one Brother WILLIAM OF GATES, who bought up every
drum company in the land; and, indeed did insist on making drums that
would work only with BROTHER GATES' drumheads and drumsticks.
DOT did say, "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by
others." And, as Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or as it
came to known EBAY, he said, "We need a name that reflects what we are."
And DOT replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner-Operators."
"YAHOO", said Abraham.
And that is how it all began. It wasn't Al Gore after all.
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