Yahoo: A Brief History of Yahoo! What You Need to Know
In January 1994, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, Jerry Yang and David Filo founded what we know today, which was originally Guide Yahoo’s Jerry on the World Wide Web, Yahoo has a directory that has organized other web sites in a hierarchy.
The story begins by Yahoo. Unlike other search engines, Yahoo has gained popularity quickly. Only twelve months after its creation, Yang and Filo had over one million visits to their old search engine. The volume of people taking Filo and Yang led to Yahoo in early 1995 The name Yahoo was already adopted by other companies, Filo and Yang had to add the exclamation mark to the image.
