Yahoo

Like many other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo! began as an idea, grew into a hobby and is now a publicly traded company. Created in 1994 by two Stanford University Graduates, David Filo and Jerry Yang, the two started their guide in April as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. There were no system or software programs available at the time so Dave and Jerry wrote a software program that enabled them to group their lists into various subject areas.
Dave and Jerry spent twenty to forty hours a week locating, identifying, and indexing web sites using the software that they developed. They were determined to cover the entire Web and set goals to visit and categorize at least 1000 sites a day. This unofficial list of private links became a very large list of shared links and was named “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. It was not originally designed with an external audience in mind but it had attracted one. Jerry and Dave received cou...