Yahoo!

Year: 1994
Creator: Jerry Yang, David Filo
Company: Yahoo!
Location: Stanford University; later Santa Clara, California
Room: The Gold Rush ↗

Description

Yahoo is a web directory that David Filo and Jerry Yang made in 1994, when they were graduate students at Stanford University. They incorporated the company on March 5, 1995, and the sign shown advertised Yahoo in San Francisco.

Importance

Yahoo grew from a directory into a guide to web content, search, and news, and it earned revenue from banner advertising. Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital joined its board, and Yahoo sold its stock to the public in April 1996. Larry Page and Sergey Brin later took a similar path from Stanford to Google.

Interesting fact

In December 1996 Yahoo users viewed an average of more than 20 million pages each day.

Sources

Yahoo! annual report on Form 10-K ↗U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · 1997-03-31
Yahoo! annual report on Form 10-K ↗U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · 2004-02-27
Search (CHM Revolution exhibition) ↗Computer History Museum
Yahoo! quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1996 ↗U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · 1996
Google Receives $25 Million in Equity Funding ↗Google · 1999-06-07