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The Early Years

        Gigolo Igbertito Testosteroni, later to become known as Egbert Noodle, Ph.D, is one of the greatest scientists and inventors of our age.  He was the seventh child born into a family of Italian immigrants in Liège, Belgium, on April 1, 1941.  His father earned a meager living as a cobbler, and his mother was a lacemaker.  Little Gigolo began to read at a very early age, and it soon became evident to his parents that they had a gifted child.  However, it was not until he reached age nine, when he received a crystal radio set as a birthday gift, that he began to show an enthusiastic interest in science.

        At age 12, his remarkable acumen enabled him to enroll at the prestigious Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum in Brussels, where he excelled in electrical engineering.  He was painfully shy, but was admired by his professors and very popular with his classmates, who fondly called him 'Egbert'.  During this time, he corresponded frequently with Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein, and three of his technical papers were published in esteemed scientific journals.  He quickly earned his doctorate degree and prepared to launch his amazing scientific career.

Arrival in America

        In 1955, the Testosteroni family emigrated to the United States, settling in Arlington, Virginia.  During a recent interview, an agent formerly employed by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service stated that he inadvertently misunderstood the Testosteroni's surname: "I kinda thought it sounded like, 'Macaroni' or somethin' like that, but I couldn't spell it.", and surreptitiously changed the name to 'Noodle' on the official documents.  Thus, the name which would later become science legend, was born.

        Egbert's burgeoning reputation preceded him, and he was offered employment at the Pentagon as a Department of Defense research scientist.  He supervised several top-secret projects involving space exploration, time travel, extra-sensory perception, and weather control.

The Internet is Born

        In 1957, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower directed Pentagon officials to develop technology to enable government computers to communicate with one another—a concept that Doctor Noodle introduced in one of his technical papers published two years earlier.  Doctor Noodle's leadership was essential to the success of the project, and his passion was contagious.  Today, his colleagues enjoy sharing anecdotes about how they and their mentor, Doctor Noodle, would have pizza and beer delivered to their laboratory and frequently work for days on end without rest.

        The invention of the Internet is certainly Doctor Noodle's greatest achievement—and his greatest gift to mankind.  Even today, over 40 years later, computer users from around the globe visit website shrines to pay homage to, and acknowledge the genius of one of the greatest scientists and inventors of our age, Doctor Egbert Noodle!