check the list for more!  think.com was the third .com registered.  It all started in 1985….

First dot com .com ever in the world.

What was the world’s first .com?  symbolics.com

There was hp.com, ibm.com, sun.com, intel.com among the first 100.  But not microsoft.com

The first edu was cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu

The first .gov was css.gov

I remember the Shakespeare quote, ” The fault dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves.”

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A long time ago in China, a girl named Li-Li got married and went
to live with her
husband and mother-in-law. In a very short time,
Li-Li found that she couldn’t get along with her mother-in-law at all.

Their personalities were very different, and Li-Li was angered by many

of her mother-in-law’s habits. In addition, she criticized Li-Li constantly.

Days passed, and weeks passed. Li-Li and her mother-in-law never stopped

arguing and fighting. But what made the situation even worse was that,

according to ancient Chinese tradition, Li-Li had to bow to her
mother-in-law and obey her every wish. All the anger and unhappiness

in the house was causing Li-Li’s poor husband great distress.

Finally, Li-Li could not stand her mother-in-law’s bad temper and
dictatorship any longer, and she decided to do something about it.

Li-Li went to see her father’s good friend, Mr. Huang, who sold herbs.

She told him the situation and asked if he would give her some poison.
So that she could solve the problem once and for all. Mr. Huang thought for

awhile, and finally said, “Li-Li, I will help you solve your problem,

but you must listen to me and obey what I tell you.

Li-Li said,

“Yes, Mr. Huang, I will do whatever you tell me to do”.

Mr. Huang went into the back room, and returned in a few minutes with

a package of herbs. He told Li-Li, “You can’t use a quick-acting
poison
to get rid of your mother-in-law, because that would cause people to

become suspicious. Therefore, I have given you a number of herbs
That will slowly build up poison in her body. Every other day prepare

some delicious meal and put a little of these herbs in her serving.

Now, in order to make sure that nobody suspects you when she dies,

you must be very careful to act very friendly towards her. Don’t argue

with her, obey her every wish, and treat her like a queen”.

Li-Li was so happy. She thanked Mr. Huang and hurried home to start her

plot of murdering her mother-in-law.

Weeks went by, and months went by,

and every other day, Li-Li served the specially treated food to her mother-in-law.

She remembered what Mr. Huang had said about avoiding suspicion,
so she controlled her temper, obeyed her mother-in-law, and treated her
like her own mother.

After six months had passed, the whole household had changed.

Li-Li had practiced controlling her temper so much that she found that

she almost never got mad or upset. She hadn’t had an argument with her

mother-in-law in six months because she now seemed much kinder and easier to

get along with. The mother-in-law’s attitude toward Li-Li changed, and she

began to love Li-Li like her own daughter. She kept telling friends and

relatives that Li-Li was the best daughter-in-law one could ever find.

Li-Li and her mother-in-law were now treating each other like a
real mother and daughter. Li-Li’s husband was very happy to see what

was happening.

One day, Li-Li came to see Mr. Huang and asked for his

help again. She said, “Dear Mr. Huang, please help me to keep the poison from

killing my mother-in-law! She’s changed into such a nice woman, and I

love her like my own mother. I do not want her to die because of the

poison I gave her”.

Mr. Huang smiled and nodded his head. “Li-Li, there’s nothing to
Worry about. I never gave you any poison. The herbs I gave you were

Vitamins to improve her health. The only poison was in your mind and your

attitude towards her, but that has been all washed away by the
love which you gave to her”.

HAVE YOU REALIZED that how you treat others is exactly how they
Will treat you?

There is a wise Chinese saying: “The person who loves

others will also be loved in return.

God might be trying to work in another person’s life through you.