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Website-resources for Yahoo.com

Jorn Barger January 2002


Timeline

1994: Jan: Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web created by grad students Jerry Yang and David Filo

1994: Dec: early mention on [netnews]

1995: Mar: Yahoo incorporated (acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle)

1995: Aug: first banner ads

1996: 12Apr: IPO; 49 employees

1996: 17Oct: [Wayback] [more]

1998: 25Dec: market cap $25B

1999: 12Jan: Tim Koogle CEO

1999: 28Jan: Yahoo buys GeoCities

2000: 28Jun: Yahoo buys eGroups

2001: 17Apr: Terry Semel CEO

Sources: corp timeline, corp history, stock timeline


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