Hi ktt,
Yahoo was created in April 1994 at Stanford University in California.
The History of Yahoo! - How It All Started...
"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..."
Yahoo Media Relations
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html
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History of Yahoo
"Yahoo was created in April 1994 by two Ph.D. candidates in Electrical
engineering named David Filo and Jerry Yang at Stanford University in
California. Both have been instrumental in building Yahoo into the
world's most highly trafficked web site and one of the Internets most
recognised brands."
(...)
"Yahoo started out as an idea, grew into a student hobby and then
turned into a full time passion for both Filo and Yang. Now it is the
brand name most associated with the Internet. It was started in
February 1994 in Filo's and Yang's campus trailer. Originally it was
called "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web", but after
randomly scanning pages in a dictionary for a smarter sounding name,
they came up with Yahoo. Yahoo is actually an acronym for "Yet another
Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The acronym represents the fact that
Yahoo seeks to be a directory or hierarchy that serves as an oracle to
the modern day office dweller who is officious..."
AKA MARKETING
http://www.akamarketing.com/yahoo-feature1.html
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