Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Yahoo Trivia

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Posted by Sam Hunter (Member # 1119) on 09-08-2003, 02:39 PM:

There was a contest on the radio a few days ago about what the acronym YAHOO stood for. I didn't get to hear the answer so I looked it up today and thought I might share it with you folks. Most of you egg heads probably know it already but so what.

Interesting in a trivial kind of way.

Here is the answer:

The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle"

The link:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html