These days, everyone knows what Yahoo! is and probably use several Yahoo! tools. It is a global Internet services company that operates an Internet portal and provides a full range of products and services including a search engine, the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Flickr.com and Yahoo! 3600. The idea was first generated by two electrical engineering graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo from Stanford University, USA.
 
How Yahoo! Incorporated
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website named “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. In April 1994 “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web” was renamed Yahoo!. [...]