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Yahoo, Apache, Ebay, Amazon, Netscape Celebrate 10 Year Anniversaries

Posted by Zonk on from the i-love-the-90s dept.

tagish writes "Roy Fielding writes on the Apache dev mailing list: 10 years ago today, the Apache Group decloaked with the creation of the new-httpd archive and initial accounts on hyperreal.org. I had the lucky timing of having the first message archived on the list, though we had actually been talking about what to do for at least a week before that (sadly, without any archives)." At the same time, Mike Porter simply writes "Yahoo celebrates its tenth anniversary on March 2nd." News about some other anniversaries available via an MSNBC article.

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  1. Not Quite. by cacepi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, but Yahoo has been around since January 1994.

    1. Re:Not Quite. by DarkMantle · · Score: 4, Informative

      They seem to be celebrating the incorperation date, which according to the link you posted was March 1995.

      I hope you don't get marked insightful for not reading your own link and being able to think by yourself.

      --
      DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
  2. Re:Now please clean up your act by everdred · · Score: 5, Informative
    It's not in their business model.

    From the thus far print-only Wired article (available on wired.com on March 1), the average Yahoo! user spends 4.8 hours per month on their site. And Google users spend an average of 6/10ths of an hour on Google. And that's the way they both want it.

    Their approaches and goals are different. Google keeps their users coming back by getting them what they need as quickly as possible. Yahoo! seems to keep users coming back for Games! and Music! and Shopping! Oh my!

  3. Re:Now please clean up your act by everdred · · Score: 5, Informative

    By the way, if it's a clean, Google-like (search-centric) interface you'd like to see on Yahoo!, try search.yahoo.com.

  4. Re:life before apache by Marc+Slemko · · Score: 4, Informative

    NCSA.

    http://www.apache.org/history/timeline.html

    The Apache HTTP server was an evolution, not a revolution.