#250729 - 02/03/2005 11:42
Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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Blast from the past. . I wasn't on the internet until late 1996, so I didn't recognize it.
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#250730 - 02/03/2005 12:12
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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And my original favourite (wasn't as fancy back then..).
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#250731 - 02/03/2005 12:28
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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#250732 - 02/03/2005 12:43
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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NFG North of the border. At least they tried, though.
EDIT: Oh wait.. Okay, so it failed to work correctly in Mozilla, Epiphany, Konqueror, and IE6 (for me), but Firefox managed it under XPpro.
Cheers
Edited by mlord (02/03/2005 12:57)
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#250733 - 02/03/2005 15:37
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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I don't know how true this is, but I've heard it from several independent people so there may be a glimmer of truth behind it. Back in '93, I started making a "cool links" page, and stuffing it with whatever I could find. (I froze it in 1995.) I'm told that the Yahoo people were inspired by my page to try to make a full-blown service. Of course, I was inspired (as were lots of other people) by Tim Curry's mtv.com, which I think was one of the first "cool" pages out there.
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#250734 - 02/03/2005 15:47
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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If the guy who drew this  had registered it, he'd be a billionaire by now!
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#250735 - 02/03/2005 15:54
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by Tim Curry's mtv.com, which I think was one of the first "cool" pages out there.
I guess Adam Curry's friends call him Tim. 
I first remember Yahoo being hosted at akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo before it got its own domain and the company was later incorporated. The thing Yahoo really did was removed all the "fluff" from the other "cool links" sites (Justin Hall had another good one around the same time as mtv.com) and focused on a high volume of sites rather than just a few cool ones.
So Dan, did you invent the Internet also? 
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#250736 - 02/03/2005 15:55
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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If the guy who drew this had registered it, he'd be a billionaire by now!
I saw a rather clever use of the "New" icon on a web site recently. Someone who everyone in the group knew as Jane Robinson is now going through the sexual reassignment process. A web site listing her name put it as "James Robinson". Probably the simplest and quickest way to make sure everyone knew.
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#250737 - 02/03/2005 16:09
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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I guess Adam Curry's friends call him Tim
You mean the star of Rocky Horror wasn't also a famous MTV personality? *sigh*
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So Dan, did you invent the Internet also?
I've always been unhappy that Gore took the credit for my work.
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#250739 - 02/03/2005 19:59
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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And now, apparently, King Arthur in Spamalot.
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#250740 - 02/03/2005 20:02
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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Oooh. Hyde-Pierce, too. Could be good!
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#250741 - 02/03/2005 20:08
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Probably the simplest and quickest way to make sure everyone knew.
Great idea, I'll file that away should I ever need it! This bbs is a treasure trove of ideas.
Gareth
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#250742 - 02/03/2005 20:15
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 20/12/1999
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Heh. Hey, you never know.
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#250743 - 03/03/2005 01:30
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
[Re: robricc]
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Registered: 29/08/2000
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Mmmm... yummy Jamaican choc cheesecake cone!
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#250745 - 03/03/2005 09:58
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wasn't he a big horned Satan geezer in something?
and a scary clown?
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#250746 - 03/03/2005 13:29
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He was Pennywise the clown in Steven King's 'It', and I think he was the big horned Satan geezer in 'Legend'
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#250747 - 03/03/2005 15:35
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
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I really liked him in Legend. The rest of the film sucked, but he was awesome.
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#250748 - 03/03/2005 15:42
Re: Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...
[Re: tfabris]
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But the soundtrack is cool! 
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