[Dixielandjazz] How the Internet was really invented

[dj outrage]

That's just great, thanks for the smile :d
Dixiejazzdata wrote:
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> How the Internet Was Started
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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)."
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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' drum heads and
> drumsticks.
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> 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."
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> And Dot replied, "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators." "YAHOO," said
> Abraham. And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.
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> Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young GregariousEnergetic 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).
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> That is how it all began. And that's the truth. As far as I know.
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