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
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 ToThe 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. 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 ofEzekiel ,
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.
