Yahoo! Turns 29: How a 90s Internet Icon Shaped the Web We Know Today

🚀 March 1, 1995 – The day the internet changed forever. Picture this: The internet is still in its awkward teenage years, full of clunky websites, dial-up tones screeching in the background, and search engines that look like they were designed by cave dwellers. Then, along comes Yahoo! , an energetic, bright purple disruptor that would go on to define how millions of people used the web. Fast forward to today, and Yahoo! is officially 29 years old . It may no longer be the king of the internet jungle, but its legacy still looms large. So, let’s take a nostalgic ride through Yahoo’s wild history, its rise, fall, and why it still refuses to disappear. The Birth of Yahoo! – When the Internet Was Young and Weird Before Google dominated the search world, two Stanford University students, Jerry Yang and David Filo , were just a couple of computer geeks trying to organize the chaotic mess that was the early internet. Their project, originally called "Jerry and David's Guide t...