2006-12-20 01:11:59 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
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.
2006-12-20 01:16:44 · answer #1 · answered by jd 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is an acronym. It stands for Yet Another Heirarchical Officious Oracle. It was originally called Jerry's Guide to the Worldwide Web after one of the creators and they wanted to shorten it but use the letter YA because the software tools they used to create it used those letters. The ! was added in 1995.
2006-12-20 18:52:42 · answer #2 · answered by Livian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Yahoo is a low-class, loud-mouthed slob, for example, "We thought that yahoo would never leave!" The two founders of yahoo used this as the basis for their company's name.
2006-12-20 10:41:54 · answer #3 · answered by mikerwells@verizon.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Becasue a cowboy created yahoo.
2006-12-20 09:14:23 · answer #4 · answered by silent_engage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Mr. Yahoo invented it Duh!
Oh and why is this in the biology section?
2006-12-20 09:14:16 · answer #5 · answered by ukcufs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was started by a couple of yahoos. (Local slang for buffoons)
2006-12-20 09:14:28 · answer #6 · answered by blue.green_eyes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the chairman of the naming committee had broken up with his girlfriend the night before and refuse to name it Emily as was planned.
2006-12-20 09:17:00 · answer #7 · answered by lollipop 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because it's a stylish, easy to remember and most of all "cool" name which especially appeals to youth.
2006-12-20 09:21:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, yeehaw and hee-haw didn't sound as nice as yahoo.
2006-12-20 09:16:25 · answer #9 · answered by Do You See What Happens Larry? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Google was already taken.
2006-12-20 09:13:21 · answer #10 · answered by I hate friggin' crybabies 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋