2006-09-17 01:08:30 · 9 answers · asked by midas 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
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."
2006-09-17 01:11:52 · answer #1 · answered by lovemcss 3 · 3⤊ 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."[1] As the backronymed version of the name implies, it was not the first directory of its kind, but it was the first to become widely popular as "the" directory of the fledgling Web. Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki", both named after famous sumo wrestlers. The "yet another" phrasing goes back at least to the Unix utility yacc, whose name is an acronym for "yet another compiler compiler".
2006-09-17 01:25:52 · answer #2 · answered by mycroft_old 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo renamed "Jerry's handbook to the international huge internet" as "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang stated they chosen the call because they cherished the word's wide-spread definition, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by employing Jonathan quick: "impolite, unsophisticated, uncouth."
2016-11-27 20:00:07 · answer #3 · answered by killeen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
founders of yahoo jerry yang and davod filo considered there nature same as to the dictionary meaning of word YAHOO and as they were tecnical geeks ,they made its technical full form as Yet Another Hierarchial Officious Oracle
Thus named Yahoo!
2006-09-17 01:20:15 · answer #4 · answered by Nishant Khurana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some dude has a last name called yahoo, which then he probably got beat up several times.
2006-09-17 01:11:25 · answer #5 · answered by Henry_Tee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people knew they were going to be Billionaires and that made them shout YAHOO
2006-09-17 01:25:37 · answer #6 · answered by Billie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"
2006-09-17 01:10:18 · answer #7 · answered by the_architect 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows?
2006-09-17 01:12:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone probably got really excited and said:
YAHOOOOOO!
2006-09-17 01:10:10 · answer #9 · answered by Novotny 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋