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  2. History of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    History of Yahoo! Yahoo! started at Stanford University. [1] It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable ...

  3. Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    Founding Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo The Yahoo home page in 1994, when it was a directory, a search engine was added in 1995. In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web".

  4. Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017) - Wikipedia

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    Website. yahoo .com. The original incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6]

  5. Timeline of Yahoo! - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline of events of Yahoo!, an American web services provider founded in 1994. ... "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is renamed "Yahoo!."

  6. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    In honor of AOL's 35th birthday on May 24, we're taking a look back at some of the company's definitive moments, like history-breaking mergers and record-breaking numbers, and how it shaped the ...

  7. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo!, founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo, launches Yahoo! Directory. It becomes the first popular Web directory. New web search engine: Infoseek is launched. March: New web search engine: The World-Wide Web Worm is released. It is claimed to have been created in September 1993, at which time there did not exist any crawler-based search ...

  8. Jerry Yang - Wikipedia

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    Jerry Yang. Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang ( Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is an American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures.

  9. AOL - Wikipedia

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    History 1983–1991: early years. AOL began in 1983, as a short-lived venture called Control Video Corporation (CVC), founded by William von Meister.Its sole product was an online service called GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console, after von Meister's idea of buying music on demand was rejected by Warner Bros. Subscribers bought a modem from the company for $49.95 and paid a one ...