Yahoo!

Yahoo! That we know as one of the search engines, Web portals and service providers e-mail from the beginning the biggest hobby two founders, David Filo and that Jerry Yang when they were still demanding science at Stanford University.

David and Jerry are all initiated in February 1994 when they began to gather a list of links to favorite sites they visit frequently on the Internet. After some time, the list is too long to be collected and knowledgeable. For that, they divide the lists into multiple categories and re-link to other links. After listing on each category is also the full, they return to them in the sub-category, and this is the core concept of the web portal Yahoo!.

Website that was initially called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" which is then given Yahoo! which is the abbreviation of "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." Yahoo! This alone saved the first time in Arkebono, workstation Jerry Yang, while the software is stored on Konishiki, a computer owned by David Filo. Arkebono and Konishiki own taken from the name of the legendary pegulat Sumo. Did you where Jerry and David keep their sites first? URL address of the first Yahoo! itself is http://arkebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.

In fact Jerry and David is not the only people who want a place to start to find information on the Internet. Not long after, hundreds of people began to access their site. Information that is spread from mouth to mouth about the site made Jerry and David hit this eventually reach 1 million in their first autumn 1994. Only after some not established.

In 1995, Jerry-David duet successfully lobbying Sequoia Capital to invest around 2 million U.S. dollars to Yahoo!. After that, they recruited Tim Koogle as Motorola's Chief Executive Officer and Jeffrey Mallett (application of WordPerfect owned by Novell) as Chief Operating Officer. In the fall of 1995, they successfully get back investors, namely Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! end of its own stock to shareholders in April 1996 is not. Total employees at the time they amounted to 49 people.

Source: PC Plus