2006-06-21 21:11:31 · 5 answers · asked by tweetiencam 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", a web site featuring a directory of other sites, organized in a hierarchy (rather than a searchable index of pages). It was renamed "Yahoo!" shortly thereafter. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is a backronym for this name, but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.
2006-06-21 23:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by patni_ankit 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", a web site featuring a directory of other sites, organized in a hierarchy (rather than a searchable index of pages). It was renamed "Yahoo!" shortly thereafter. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is a backronym for this name, but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
2006-06-21 21:14:51 · answer #2 · answered by Susan G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they got too excited while making the website...n exclaimed yahoo:P:P(lame i no)
2006-06-21 21:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
check this website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!
2006-06-21 21:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by Amy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just !
2006-06-21 21:14:48 · answer #5 · answered by cominatsha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋