Where does the name come from? How old is the YAHOO! name? Why was this name used for a computer system? Did this name have any relationship with the potato chip company, WISE? Does the name have a relationship with the bird called an olw? Why is this name written in red? Is red the only color for the word, YAHOO!? Does the YAHOO! name have any relationship with the term, yah, as it is heard from a cattleruslter or someone using a whip on a horse? Could you please tell me how many countries use YAH00! What would you describe as the best computer system for personal use, that is like YAHOO!?
2007-12-12 00:58:22 · 9 answers · asked by yarushalom_yah 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
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.-
2007-12-12 03:26:28 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't when Yahoo was created, but what I know, Yahoo is the #1 site from Computer systems cause it is the best site ever, you can have fun, you can even search on the web, search for Images, Videos, Shopping & many many more. It was supported cause you can really have fun & theyr'e system is really cool. That's why Yahoo is also added wiith a '!' sign cause it's like you are shouting YAHOO!!!, like, you are excited, just like you said the word YEAH!!!. Understand? I also don't know why is the Yahoo word was colored Red, but I think that Red is the favorite color of the creator of Yahoo.com.
Good Luck, Hope I helped!! : )
2007-12-12 09:01:00 · answer #2 · answered by ρıłıρıησ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In January 1994, Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web."
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".
2007-12-13 00:14:32 · answer #3 · answered by Rachelle_of_Shangri_La 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yahoo! Inc. got its start in 1994 as the hobby of two Stanford University students who were writing their doctoral dissertations. Jerry Yang and David Filo, both of whom were candidates in Stanford's electrical engineering doctoral program, spent much of their free time surfing the World Wide Web and cataloging their favorite Web sites.as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" and is later renamed Yahoo! "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" (YAHOO).
2007-12-12 10:16:12 · answer #4 · answered by Rain 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo is a form of greeting which was used in the mountains to call to someone because of the length in pitch when called out it echos providing its distance. From Scandinavian origin.
2007-12-15 23:07:03 · answer #5 · answered by kymm r 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May be there was a song with this word in it and at any case it is very youngly sonor and fresh.
2007-12-12 09:23:42 · answer #6 · answered by IndrisOK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yet
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2007-12-12 09:12:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe when the person who made the web page they shouted YAHOO! and named it that
2007-12-12 09:04:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe cuase he liked it. whoever made it
yahoo!!! now that was fun????
2007-12-12 10:37:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋