2006-08-19 06:42:27 · 13 answers · asked by ©«°¶£¶»Ahmed«¶£¶°»© 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Amusement Parks
I believe a Yahoo was originally a race of people in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. They were contrasted with the horse-headed Houyhnhms.
(Edit: I was close. From Wikipedia: "a Yahoo is a vile and savage creature, filthy and with unpleasant habits, resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of Lemuel Gulliver, who finds the calm and rational society of the Houyhnhnms far preferable.")
2006-08-19 06:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The word was created by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" written in 1726. (Yes, that far back). A yahoo was a member of a race of brutes in the form of man with all the vices of man. They were considered boorish, crass and stupid.
The word yahoo became popular in the 50's with Disney's character Goofy skiing off the side of a mountain and you could hear him yell "Yaaaahooooohoooohooo as he sailed over the edge into the chasm.
Later, on it was used by sports spectators all over the USA as football frenzy spread across the nation after the NFL and AFL were formed.
It's also used as an exclamation of sheer joy. "Yahoo! I won the lottery!" "Yahoo I found it!"
Yahoo is also an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" Nobody knows for sure who coined the word, Jerry or David who both attended Stanford University. For your perusal here is the mini history site:http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history....
Hope this helps, good luck.
Source(s):
Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history....
2006-08-19 22:19:18 · answer #2 · answered by Ding-Ding 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's usually an exclamation of happiness. In terms of the Internet I guess it means, "Hurray, I found what I'm looking for!" However, I still think names like "Yahoo," "Google" and "Excite" sound silly. I can't picture myself telling someone, "I'm going to 'Google' this or 'Google' that." The Internet has definitely changed the way we express ourselves.
2006-08-19 14:19:02 · answer #3 · answered by . 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from msn encarta:
Definition:
rude person: somebody who is regarded as unruly, crude, or brutish (informal insult)
[Early 18th century. After the Yahoos in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)]
2006-08-19 13:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Literary, yahoo means a rude,loud and unpleasant person,especially one who lacks education.
2006-08-19 18:59:07 · answer #5 · answered by Marie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started...
Yahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born.
The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
Jerry and David soon found they were not alone in wanting a single place to find useful Web sites. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from well beyond the Stanford trailer. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit Internet community. Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors.
Due to the torrent of traffic and enthusiastic reception Yahoo! was receiving, the founders knew they had a potential business on their hands. In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and met with dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They eventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regarded firm whose most successful investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an initial investment of nearly $2 million.
Realizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees.
Today, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.
2006-08-19 14:58:57 · answer #6 · answered by Miraj Patel 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo! is a sir name of a person .! who owns yahoo!.com
2006-08-19 16:07:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its because wen you find somthing you want to find you say yahoo like : Yahoo i'm happy.
2006-08-20 09:49:39 · answer #8 · answered by Adriel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you asked the same question twice do you do that normally. yahoo means forever
2006-08-19 13:48:27 · answer #9 · answered by dare_ange1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Since it is "Yahoo!", with the "!", it is an expression
of joy.
2006-08-19 19:54:26 · answer #10 · answered by L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋