The t***h concerning the internet. Old I know but then so am I sayeth to myself: HOW THE INTERNET STARTED, according TO THE BIBLE... PLEASE DO NOT GOOGLE THIS ONE OR CHECK WITH SNOPES.

Onelostdog Loc: Restless Oregon

HOW THE INTERNET STARTED, according TO THE BIBLE...

PLEASE DO NOT GOOGLE THIS ONE OR CHECK WITH SNOPES.

THEY WILL LIE TO YOU. TRUST ME!

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 for short). Dot Com was a comely woman, large of breast, 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 buying from 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. 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 t***smit ideas and pictures - Hebrew to The 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. Indeed he 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).

That is how it all began. And that's the t***h. I would not make up this stuff!

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

There´s another version of the creation and meaning of the internet out there, One Lost (I can´t bring myself to call you a dog), although it´s far less entertaining.

The Noosphere: Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ; (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist - as enlightened by evolution.

He conceived the idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving) and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere, which many computer nerds today equate with the WWW - internet.

During his lifetime, many of Teilhard's writings were censored by the Catholic Church; the response to his writings by evolutionary biologists has been, with some exceptions, decidedly negative.

During 1930–1931, Teilhard stayed in France and in the United States. During a conference in Paris, Teilhard stated: "For the observers of the Future, the greatest event will be the sudden appearance of a collective humane conscience and a human work to make."

One of the key concepts of Teilhard de Chardin’s philosophy is the noosphere, which Teilhard believed to be the next phase of human evolution.

The term noosphere derives from the Greek νοῦς (nous “mind”) and σφαῖρα (sphaira “sphere”), and is related to the terms geosphere (inanimate matter) and biosphere (biological life).

Teilhard's idea of a Noosphere, or layer of intelligence enveloping the earth, and his description of mankind's evolution toward a destiny to fulfill that role was, at the time, considered more spiritual than scientific:

¨The noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The noosphere has grown in step with the organization of the human mass in relation to itself as it populates the Earth. As humanity organizes itself in more complex social networks, the higher the noosphere will grow in awareness...¨

Teilhard argued the noosphere is growing towards an even greater integration and unification, culminating in the Omega Point, which he erroneously titled the Cosmic Christ, the second person of the Trinity.

However his metaphor was applied or misapplied at the time, today´s internet has physically fulfilled certain aspects of his vision of the future, and is idolized within Gnosticism and the NAM (New Age Movement) as Tielhard´s noosphere.

Onelostdog wrote:

HOW THE INTERNET STARTED, according TO THE BIBLE..... (show quote)

pickmeup Loc: Mid Michigan

Cheers to you're imagination and writing ability.

Onelostdog Loc: Restless Oregon

Zemirah wrote:

There´s another version of the creation and meaning of the internet out there, One Lost (I can´t bring myself to call you a dog), although it´s far less entertaining.

The Noosphere: Teilhard de Chardin’s Vision

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ; (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist - as enlightened by evolution.

He conceived the idea of the Omega Point (a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving) and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere, which many computer nerds today equate with the WWW - internet.

During his lifetime, many of Teilhard's writings were censored by the Catholic Church; the response to his writings by evolutionary biologists has been, with some exceptions, decidedly negative.

During 1930–1931, Teilhard stayed in France and in the United States. During a conference in Paris, Teilhard stated: "For the observers of the Future, the greatest event will be the sudden appearance of a collective humane conscience and a human work to make."

One of the key concepts of Teilhard de Chardin’s philosophy is the noosphere, which Teilhard believed to be the next phase of human evolution.

The term noosphere derives from the Greek νοῦς (nous “mind”) and σφαῖρα (sphaira “sphere”), and is related to the terms geosphere (inanimate matter) and biosphere (biological life).

Teilhard's idea of a Noosphere, or layer of intelligence enveloping the earth, and his description of mankind's evolution toward a destiny to fulfill that role was, at the time, considered more spiritual than scientific:

¨The noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds. The noosphere has grown in step with the organization of the human mass in relation to itself as it populates the Earth. As humanity organizes itself in more complex social networks, the higher the noosphere will grow in awareness...¨

Teilhard argued the noosphere is growing towards an even greater integration and unification, culminating in the Omega Point, which he erroneously titled the Cosmic Christ, the second person of the Trinity.

However his metaphor was applied or misapplied at the time, today´s internet has physically fulfilled certain aspects of his vision of the future, and is idolized within Gnosticism and the NAM (New Age Movement) as Tielhard´s noosphere.

There´s another version of the creation and meanin... (show quote)

Nothing personally meant here but I get a bigger laugh out of my rendition.

Sometimes life is just a tad bit heavy for my elderly brain cells to carry. Thanks for the comeback though I appreciate it a lot. Dog. Hey if I call myself dog so can you, I mean we are the conservative mans best friend and all.