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. 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 neighboring 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 enter-
prising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who
bought off every drum maker in the land. And he
did insist on drums to be made that would work
only with Brother Gates' drum heads and drumsticks.

Lo, 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 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.