Yahoo.com turns 10 years old today...

Blast from the past. .

I wasn't on the internet until late 1996, so I didn't recognize it.

And my original favourite (wasn't as fancy back then..).

Free ice cream:
http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthday/

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

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.

If the guy who drew this had registered it, he'd be a billionaire by now!

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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?