Perhaps this has been around before, but anyway here goes. overthehill

 
 
 
Could this be TRUE
 
How the Internet started



A revelation with an Incredibly Big Message (IBM):

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 also 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 drums 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.


Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuly!!!









 
 Very interesting!
But before you pout this on http://www.wikipedia.org/

You need to document -
just a few things!   
  Quote from: Geek-9pm on January 14, 2011, 07:57:35 PM

Very interesting!
But before you pout this on http://www.wikipedia.org/

You need to document -
just a few things!   
 

This is how Wars start. 

Not a chance. overthehill

I beg to differ.

I refer you to the Middle East. And as this is a global site, i'm sure it's going to offend somebody.

I think that you are reading too much into it.

I'm not, i just think that the people that you may offend, don't necessarily have a sense of humor, let alone the same sense of humor. I think the Dutch cartoonist (who has had a few assassination attempts on his life) didn't intend to insult anyone. Yet look what happened there http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy. I know your post is entirely innocent, but i do think you're walking the line. To show something like this among friends is one thing, but to post it publicly  is another, and i would not be surprised if it was removed.

I cannot think of any person or religion it could offend, I cannot even contrive a made-up religion that would be offended.

Maybe its diiferent in different countries. Last year, at Halloween (this was in the local city paper) a person that belonged to a major eastern religion complained to the police that her next door neighbour had a fake gravestone in her garden and it was offending her because the the crucifix on it. The police told the women in question to remove the offending 'gravestone' even though, because of the high fences, it could only be seen from the upstairs window. Now, this may sound ridiculous, but its true. Some people, especially the fanatical, can find offence in almost anything.

What the *censored* does this have to do with what Overthehill posted?