Yahoo!, or Yahoo, or just yahoo… There’s less and less to be excited about as time goes on, and Yahoo, too, has become more unenthused as its once-bright star waned over the past three decades. Once the most popular online directory and search engine on the web, Yahoo turned 30 years old last week, Jan. 30, and nobody gave a damn.
You see, Yahoo and I share a birthday, or nearly so. We were both given life in January of 1994. Back then, founders Jerry Yang and David Filo envisioned a web directory. While it didn’t get its full name until March, Yahoo itself was an acronym for ‘Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.” It’s a word salad, a searchable page index, making finding different pages on the still-nascent internet easier.
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