Know your Web Founders – Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo.com
Jerry Yang, David Filo – Creators of the World Wide Web's First Web Directory YAHOO.COM
Quote: "Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day, we were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful."
How Yahoo was born: 1994, Stanford University
Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering students from Stanford University.
The World Wide Web was at its infancy then and was an exciting diversion for the duo from their tedious studies.
There were zillions of websites to explore but no way to keep track of the cool ones. So they got the idea of putting together a list of their favorite sites, organized into topics, then designed a search engine that made finding the right site as simple as typing in the right keywords. (Adapted from: Entrepreneur.com)
In April 1994, Jerry renamed his "Guide to the World Wide Web" "Yahoo!" for which the official expansion is "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The word's general definition comes from Gulliver's Travels which means "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." The original URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.
(Source: ComputerWeekly.com)
As Yahoo!'s list of sites expanded, so did its number of users. By November 1994, 170,000 people a day were visiting the site. By 1998, Web surfers were dropping into Yahoo! at the rate of more than a million a day. (Source: Entrepreneur.com)
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