In the late 1990s, Yahoo!, MSN, Lycos, Excite, and other web portals were growing rapidly. Web portal providers moved to acquire companies to expand their range of services, generally with the goal of increasing the time each user stays within the portal. On March 8, 1997, Yahoo! acquired online communications company Four11.

The following is a timeline of events of Yahoo!, an American web services provider founded in 1994. January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web " while studying at Stanford University. [1] March 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is renamed " Yahoo!." [2] March 2, 1995: Yahoo! is incorporated. [3]

As the internet evolved through the late ‘90s and early 2000s, so did the Yahoo! homepage, which was for millions of people the entry point into the World Wide Web.

Mar 21, 2018 · For many in the 1990s, this spunky little startup with the funny name was the internet. It began life as a web directory, manually curated and categorized by humans, who were known simply as “the...

Jul 25, 2016 · Verizon's purchase of Yahoo will close the book on one of the oldest Internet companies. What happened to the other famous '90s brands, like GeoCities, Netscape and CompuServe? A nerdy...

A comprehensive visual history of Yahoo.com from 1994 to 2025. See a gallery of the Yahoo.com evolution from the beginning to present day.

Jun 21, 2024 · Yahoo started rapidly acquiring companies in an attempt to morph beyond a search engine into a complete internet service company. These rapid fire acquisitions had a hit-or-miss track record. On...

Apr 21, 2006 · Here is the visual screen capture timeline of Yahoo.com, from 1996 to 2006, via the Wayback Machine. In 1996 Yahoo was built around a simple directory, news headlines, Add Your URL, Cool Sites,...

Take a trip down memory lane and look at the Yahoo in 1994. Check out the Web Design Museum gallery. Go back to the early days of the Internet.

Nov 23, 2015 · In the late '90s, Yahoo had expanded far beyond its roots—it launched an email service, chat, groups, games, and a website platform. (Remember GeoCities?) It also tried to assert itself as a...