2007-03-24 19:20:27 · 3 answers · asked by rima 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
YAHOO is an acronym for
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
2007-03-24 20:52:47 · answer #1 · answered by DJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo
In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The name can also be a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
2007-03-25 02:23:20 · answer #2 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the dictionary, a yahoo is:
1. (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.
2. (lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel.
3. (lowercase) a coarse or brutish person.
2007-03-25 02:24:48 · answer #3 · answered by yanbarumuku 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋