What a bunch of Yahoooooos! - Mobility TechZone

Date: 9/23/2016

Featured Articles » No Restraints On 5G Hype While LTE Progresses » Gigabit Data Over Power Lines Closer to Reality With AT&T's Airgig » Comcast Enters Mobile Phone Service Market » Altair Semiconductors Certified for Verizon Sponsored by: IoT Evolution Expo February 7 - 10, 2017, Fort Lauderdale, Florida   From The Expert Corner September 23, 2016 What a bunch of Yahoooooos! By Carl Ford Partner, Crossfire Media What a bunch of Yahoo!s. There are so many things wrong with this story, that I don’t know where to start. Definition: Yahoo 1. (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms. 2.(lowercase) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel. 3.(lowercase) a coarse or brutish person. Background from Wikipedia. In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web." The site was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In March 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995. Read More Featured Videos IoT Evolution Expo Florida 2016 Keynote: Verizon Featured Channels » IoT Evolution World Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Become a MobilityTechzone columnist! Interested in reaching Mobility Techzone's Global Wireless and Mobile Communications Audience of 70,000 Unique Visitors? Please contact Matthew Gleeson to learn how at mgleeson@tmcnet.com or 1 (203) 852-6800 x145.

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