the history of internet

Yahoo! The first of the first!

The well known Yahoo, started as a hobby of two students that were making their master in the university of Stanford. David Filo and Jerry Yang, candidate doctors of electrical engineering, started the web site “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”, as a record of their personal interest in internet. The list was getting bigger day after day and the categories became subcategories and these subcategories other subcategories. Very soon, the time that they were offering to the list with their favorite links, was more than the one they offered in their master.

The fame of the list was expanding and became popular in the campus firstly, and later in the world of internet. When the site celebrated the 1000000 hits, came the time of the investors. They gave an initial capital of 2 millions dollars and helped in the creation of Yahoo, which learned to the world what is the meaning of the portal. Now it is in the first rank in the world concerning the visitors, from that time until today.

THE FRONT PAGE OF YAHOO IN 1996

The first managerial group, under the supervision of Jerry and David, was Tim Koogle as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallet as chief operating officer. Today, Yahoo is the biggest universal portal with services that are using more than 345 millions people from all over the world, every month.

 

THE FRONT PAGE OF YAHOO IN 2005

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