The directory of websites two Stanford students started in February 1994, first under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web, then as the portal that was the front door of the web for most of a decade. The record's entry for the homepage everybody had before they had a choice.
The record notes the original name was a description, not a brand, and that the gallery's point stands: a name that takes longer to type than the search takes to run is not a name.
The record notes the exclamation mark is part of the registered name and not an expression of feeling, which is the only reason it appears in these pages at all.
In 1999 Yahoo was the page my modem dialled into, and the news, the weather and my email were all on it. I did not think of it as a company. I thought of it as the internet's lobby.
Seen in 2026 on a relative's laptop: yahoo.com still set as the homepage, still loading first, still ignored. The record files this as the site's present tense.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
