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Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University [1] when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
In March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" and became known as the Yahoo Directory. [10][13][14][15][16] The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January 18, 1995. [17]
In March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!", [22][23] the human-edited Yahoo! Directory, provided for users to surf through the internet, being their first product and original purpose. [24][25] The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995.
Mar 21, 2018 · Yahoo was the first site to add news, sports, and finance feeds to its web directory; those three services remain hugely popular as part of Oath, Verizon’s name for its AOL-Yahoo media mashup.
It was initially called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” but, as the site grew in popularity, it was renamed Yahoo!, an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”
They renamed the site to Yahoo in April, taking the name from the race of rude, coarse and unpleasant beings in Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels, though they also came up with a way ...
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States. Key Dates: 1994: The company begins as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" and is later renamed Yahoo! 1995: Yahoo! moves to Netscape. 1996: The company goes public.
