Believe it or not, no one can afford to deny or ignore the tiny sparkle of an idea, especially in a/an 1 of knowledge explosion. Like any other aspects of the computer age, Yahoo began as an idea, 2 into a hobby and lately has turned into a full-time passion. The two developers of Yahoo, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph. D candidates 3 Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in the United States, started their 4 in April 1994 as a way to keep 5 of their personal interest on the Internet. Before long they found that their homebrewed lists were becoming too long and 6 . And gradually they began to spend more and more time on Yahoo.
During the year of 1994, they 7 Yahoo into a customized database designed to 8 the needs of the thousands of users that began to use the service through the closely 9 Internet community. They developed customized software to help them 10 locate, identify and edit material 11 on the Internet. The name Yahoo is 12 to stand for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but David Filo and Jerry Yang insist that they select the 13 because they considered themselves yahoos. Yahoo itself first 14 on Yang"s workstation, "akebono", while the search engine was 15 on Filo"s computer, "Konishiki".
In early 1995 Marc Andersen, one of the 16 of Netscape Communication in Mountain View, California, invited Filo and Yang to move their files 17 to larger computers 18 at Netscape. As a result Stanford"s computer network returned to 19 and both parties benefited from this issue. Today, Yahoo 20 organized information on tens of thousands of computers linked to the web.