15. (Ch 4.1) The Early Search Engines And Yahoo
Internet History Podcast
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The History of Yahoo
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Fylo as a software project at the University of Illinois. When Netscape launched its beta browser in late 1994 it decided to make Yahoo the default link when a user clicked on the directory button at the top menu of the browser. By January of 1995 Yahoo had grown into a directory of 10,000 sites and was getting more than 100,000 unique visitors a day. The university soon asked Yang and Fylo to find another host for their website. In order to build bridges, Mark Andreece agreed to host Yahoo temporarily on one of Netscape's spare Silicon Graphics servers.
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