Imagine saying this sentence today, "The most popular index on the World Wide Web is Yahoo." Granted, the terminology comes across as a bit arcane, but the idea that Yahoo was the most popular anything sounds fanciful. But there was a time, decades ago, when Yahoo was so big, it had an exclamation point at the end of its name. When it understood the Internet like no other. And when we might have imagined big, maybe global celebrations to mark its 30 birthday.
Instead, the date, January 30th, 2024 (30 years after Stanford University students Jerry Yang and David Filo founded it), passed almost without notice. The still-relatively young Facebook got far more press for its 20th anniversary on February 4.
