that the word yahoo means stupid or uncouth person. well did ya?
2006-07-30 15:30:03 · 9 answers · asked by soulsista 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes i think it was 1994, when we all wondered what "YAHOO" actually means.
There was the rumour that it is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but later the founders David Filo and Jerry Yang always told they liked the actual meaning "rude, uncouth, unsophisticated", because such a person would need Yahoo's services.
How true! There we are!
But do you know where GOOGLE comes from?
The Meaning of Google
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.
2006-07-31 10:35:15 · answer #1 · answered by Unmountable Bootvolume 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
some words since the computer age have totally seperate meanings today.
Like a mouse, blackberry, ipod,
when we think of Yahoo.com that is not what we think of.
Certain words will not even be in older dictionarys.
Like cell phone, text messages, or in some the word scanner is not what we know it to be today.
We have a whole new vocabulary. TV VCR DVD DVD+R
2006-07-30 22:41:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Other meanings include:
A crude or brutish person.
Not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]
One of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift
2006-07-30 22:50:07 · answer #3 · answered by Jylsamynne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it fits Yahoo Answers quite well.
2006-07-30 22:37:12 · answer #4 · answered by creeklops 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who here is a yahoo?
2006-07-30 22:33:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a crude person.
2006-07-30 22:42:40 · answer #6 · answered by jfmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but that's pronounced "yay-hoo" and I thought it was spelled differently.
2006-07-30 22:33:09 · answer #7 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, I didn't know that
2006-07-30 22:34:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you?
2006-07-30 22:32:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋