In April 1994, a pair of Stanford students worked during their spare time to build "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." Today their firm is called simply Yahoo! and is the first and leading web search engine, with a market capitalization of $70 billion.

In April 1994, a pair of Stanford students worked during their spare time to build "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." Today their firm is called simply Yahoo! and is the first and leading web search engine, with a market capitalization of $70 billion.