Reuters
When David Filo and Jerry Yang created Yahoo in 1995, it was nothing more than a simple list of links, a guide to the open web that new websites clamored to be featured on.
Now, fast-forward more than ten years, and Verizon is acquiring it for $4.8 billion.
Thanks to The Internet Archive, we can revisit the early days and see exactly what Yahoo used to look like.
Take a trip down memory lane...
Jerry Yang and David Filo created Yahoo back in January 1994 while studying at Stanford University. They renamed it "Yahoo!" in March.The Wayback MachineBy 1996 the site looked like this. The company had its initial public offering in April of that year, closing at $33, up 270% from its IPO price.The Wayback Machine
Anyone who was growing up in the 90s may remember "Yahooligans," the company's "web guide for kids."The Wayback Machine
Or, for an older crowd, its Seniors' Guide, which launched in 1998. The Wayback Machine
Here's the press release Yahoo published at the time.
The site's homepage still looked pretty much the same by 2000.The Wayback Machine
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