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?"
Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle
bags short of a camel load, but simply said, "How, dear?"
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.
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!
