2006-08-13 08:21:17 · 6 answers · asked by Austin W 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Yahoo is a word coined by Jonathon Swift in his Gulliver's Travels, Part Four. It referred to an imaginary animal that stood for the depraved human being with his physical and moral deformation. The word was then used to refer to a human being with crude or brutish nature just like Swift referred to the imaginary Yahoos in his novel.
Try the novel, it's lengthy but great.
2006-08-13 08:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by Basma 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
Might sound like I've made it up but it's true.
Check out Yahoo's own history page... http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html
The word had previously been used in Gullivers Travels (I think) and was used in Britain as an alternative for 'hurrah'. But with the creation of the Yahoo web portal it became a worldwide word.
2006-08-13 15:29:12 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ORIGIN named after an imaginary race in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726).
• a noun, a rude, coarse, or brutish person.
2006-08-13 15:36:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was a race of people in the book Guilliver's Travels by Johnathon Swift.
2006-08-13 15:26:24 · answer #4 · answered by Starlight 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it came from a drink called yahoo
2006-08-13 15:26:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This link will give you the history.
http://faeriekeeper.net/the2002.htm
2006-08-13 15:30:02 · answer #6 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋