Please do not Google or check this with Snopes. Trust me! They will lie to you.

In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a healthy young wife by the name of Dorothy.

Dot Com was a comely woman, large of breast, broad of shoulder, long of leg, and she was often called Amazon Dot Com.

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 full 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).”

After thinking long and hard, Abraham decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. The drums rang out, were an immediate success, and Abraham sold all the goods he had at top price without ever having to move from his tent.

In order 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). She also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures – Hebrew to the People (HTTP).

Young men did take to Dot Com’s trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung, and they were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS.

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’ drum heads and drumsticks.

Dot did say, “Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others.”

Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or eBay as it came to be known and said, “We need a name that reflects what we are.”

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.

I would not make up this stuff.

HOW THE INTERNET STARTED, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE

Written by Walter Salm, a senior tech writer.

Thank you Walter

Happy New Year

Photos by Eliot Hess

Wishing all of our family and friends a Happy New Year. We ended 2017 with a great day at sea thanks to Ruth and Howard Greenberg. All of the Greenberg children were there too. The special guest was Whiskey, the Greenberg pooch.

We spent the day on a 40-foot catamaran cruising Biscayne Bay and then visiting Stiltsville, a group of wood stilt houses located one mile south of cape Florida on the edge of Biscayne Bay in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

It’s weird to have such a gorgeous day here when most of the country is freezing. It wasn’t that long ago that we were struggling through a hurricane called Irma. Every area of the country has its good and bad.

We hope 2018 is a healthy and happy one for everyone. Lots of good stuff coming up in the days ahead. I leave for CES January 7th so I should be showing you many innovative products. I have to get these old bones ready for miles of walking to see all of the exhibits. See you next year.

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And For The Living….

You would think in today’s #metoo world, women would be more supportive of each other. I was surprised to see the article by TV writer Susan Silver (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Maude”) in the Forward, a daily newspaper for American Jews, criticizing Amy Sherman-Palladino on her much recognized TV comedy “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Sherman-Palladino is also a TV writer and producer. She is known for the Gilmore Girls and the Bunheads.

I am particularly upset with the Forward for publishing Silver’s critique because she said “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” was anti-semitic and the TV show is problematic in tone, writing, directing and acting. Eliot and I just finished watching the Amazon series and we enjoyed every minute of it. A number of friends are recommending the show to each other, and are calling out specific parts because they love the dialog.

I am writing this piece because I want to criticize The Forward for publishing Silver’s article that clearly reeks from jealousy and insecurity. It’s one thing to have one TV writer review another, but it’s really upsetting when they allow someone to stir up anti-semitic accusations. Not once did I feel that the TV series was portraying the Jewish characters as unflattering stereotypes.

I asked my Irish girlfriend if she thought the TV Show was showing Jews in a bad light. She looked at me like I was crazy. While she knew that the TV family was Jewish, she said as far as she was concerned they could have been Italian or Irish, or WASP’s, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP). Silver is so jealous of Sherman-Palladino’s success that she is starting trouble where there is none.

I asked a Jewish girlfriend who watched the show if she thought Jews were mocked in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and her response was the most interesting. “Hell no,” she said. “Most Jews of that time were not wealthy and did not live in the upper west side in large apartments. Nor did they have wardrobes that equaled a fashionista.”

I hope you will watch the series soon and let me know your opinion. Meanwhile, this is how Wikipedia explains the show.