2007-05-23 04:17:20 · 9 answers · asked by Ketan 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
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.
2007-05-23 06:16:53 · answer #1 · answered by Saleem 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jerry Yang invented Yahoo! in 1994 as a directory.
2007-05-23 04:29:34 · answer #2 · answered by cool_navin1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jonathan Swift, the author of 'Gulliver's Travels' invented 'YAHOO' !
It has been in use since 1726.
Can't believe?
Here is the authentic info.:
"yahoo : "a brute in human form," 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels."
Source: Etymology Dictionary.
Our 'Yahoo' -- the media was FOUNDED ( Not Invented) in the year 1994 by It's Jerry Yang and David Filo.(co-founders)
2007-05-23 06:10:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yahoo was started by two students from the stanford university, david filo and jerry yang in their hostel room...it was initially called Jerry's guide to the world wide web.and then the name Yahoo was later taken from Jonathan Swift's Gullives travels.
2007-05-23 05:45:17 · answer #4 · answered by Shreyas S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
David Filo and Jerry Yang
2007-05-23 16:04:24 · answer #5 · answered by elvisjohn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Al Gore?!?!
2007-05-23 04:25:25 · answer #6 · answered by Erin C 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
jonathan swift
2007-05-23 05:33:47 · answer #7 · answered by charlatan 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://info.yahoo.com/
2007-05-23 04:30:13 · answer #8 · answered by archana3k1 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Not me!! :(
2007-05-23 04:29:15 · answer #9 · answered by The Indoian 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋