Yahoo!
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This article is about the corporation. For the search engine, see Yahoo! Search. For other uses, see Yahoo (disambiguation).
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Traded as | NASDAQ: YHOO NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component |
| Industry | Internet, Computer software |
| Founded | Santa Clara, California, U.S. (March 1, 1995) |
| Founder(s) | Jerry Yang, David Filo |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Roy Bostock (Chairman) Scott Thompson (CEO) |
| Products | See list of Yahoo! products. |
| Revenue |  US$ 6.324 billion (2010)[1] |
| Operating income | US$ 1.070 billion (2010)[1] |
| Net income | US$ 1.232 billion (2010)[1] |
| Total assets |  US$ 14.928 billion (2010)[1] |
| Total equity | US$ 12.596 billion (2010)[1] |
| Employees | 13,600 (2010)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | List of subsidiaries of Yahoo! |
| Website | Yahoo.com |
Yahoo! inclusive was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On January 13, 2009, Yahoo! appointed Carol Bartz, former executive chairman of Autodesk, as its new chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.[3] On September 6, 2011, Bartz was removed from her position at Yahoo! by chairman Roy Bostock and CFO Tim Morse was named as Interim CEO of the company.[4][5] On January 4th, 2012, Scott Thompson, former President of PayPal, was named the new chief executive officer.[6]
According to news sources roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month.[7][8] Yahoo! itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages".[9]
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Yahoo was the first Search Engine that I know of on the Internet along with Netscape as the first Net Browser:
Netscape
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For the web browser produced by this corporation, see Netscape (web browser).
| Type | Subsidiary of AOL |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet, Software, & Telecommunication |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, United States (as an independent company) Dulles, Virginia, USA (after becoming a part of AOL) |
| Key people | Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark (founders) |
| Products | Internet suite web browser Internet service provider web portal |
| Employees | 10,000 |
| Parent | AOL |
| Website | isp.netscape.com |
Netscape's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. By the end of 2006, the usage share of Netscape browsers had fallen, from over 90% in the mid 1990s, to less than 1%. Netscape developed the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) for securing online communication, which is still widely used,[3] as well as JavaScript, the most widely-used language for client-side scripting of web pages. end quote from wikipedia under the heading "Netscape".
The public non-university internet(World Wide Web) started in 1994 and 1995 with these two companies. At first only people who were very technically proficient could make it work. I and my son and my step son and step daughter were some of the people out on Netscape and Yahoo in the early days. I believe then I was still using my IBM clone AT and then my son bought a IBM clone 386 and then 486. Most cable internet companies (ISPs) were mostly local dial-ups over the phone at first were very small and then ALL or almost all (World Wide Web) servers were in Silicon Valley at that time except for military ones here in the U.S. Some people or companies also had their own private servers(a slave computer used to allow web surfing) as well to speed up loading of individual windows for new customers or people exploring the web. Universities had already adapted military Darpa protocols to share research between scientists and students nationwide and worldwide before the (World Wide Web) came about.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) developed the essence of the internet as a way of creating redundancy during a nuclear war. It was a way using the phone lines to have the same information at up to 25 or more different places across the U.S. In this way if 10 or more cities or military bases were dust from nuclear strikes no information would be lost that was needed to conduct both warfare and our government and military ongoing. So, even if 3/4 of all of our governmental and military infrastructure was lost to nuclear war or even cataclysm our government could go on regroup and still exist with no important information lost. This still exists by the way. But this technology has turned into first a way of inexpensively sharing research between universities and then the World Wide Web (the Internet). So, now this technology originally developed by DARPA is used all over the world in higher and higher levels of sophistication as the now worldwide internet in various forms.
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