Anyone know why Yahoo is called that?
2007-02-25 11:13:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" is a backronym for "yahoo!", 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." 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. The "yet another" phrasing goes back at least to the Unix utility yacc, whose name is an acronym for "yet another compiler compiler".
2007-02-25 11:25:17 · answer #1 · answered by karen464916 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya hoo was slang in the Appalachian region of America and was a greeting saying hello from mountaintop to mountaintop. It morphed into an exclamation of winning or expressing happiness "Yahoo, I Won". So the name yahoo for this web spot prolly refers to the fact that we are shouting greetings back and forth across the world harking back to the original composition of the word.
2007-02-25 11:20:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In January 1994, Stanford graduate students Jerry YAng (楊致遠) and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other web sites.
2007-02-25 11:19:02 · answer #3 · answered by Emily 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause when you find what you are looking for you go "Yahooo!" and finding things back in the olden times was a big deal cause the internet was all new and everyone was very impressed! lol
2007-02-25 11:16:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because that's what a little team of IT geeks shouted when they realised they were onto something back in 1994.
2007-02-25 11:15:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing its like a yodel,communicating across a stretch which is what were all doing
2007-02-25 11:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by nendlin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell, I was just going to say "read Guliver's Travels", but damn did Karen have an answer. vote for her!
2007-02-25 11:45:13 · answer #7 · answered by Jeni P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but am curious to hear the answers ! Good question !
2007-02-25 11:15:58 · answer #8 · answered by Mx2 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
from the delicious chocolate milk...YAHOOOoooooooo
2007-02-25 11:16:52 · answer #9 · answered by sunflare63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-25 11:17:32 · answer #10 · answered by Jesus Christ 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋