Sejarah Internet & Yahoo!

AzusaFuyutsuki · Post time 11-12-2005 12:17 AM

is has been 10 years since it's incoporated and 11 years since it's founded...it's virtually play a big part of our internet progress (that I believe none of Cari forumers could said never use it) so I guess putting in history is appropriate

Yahoo! Inc. is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

According to Alexa Internet and Netcraft, both of which are Web trends companies, Yahoo! is the most visited website on the Internet today. The global network of Yahoo websites received 3 billion page views per day as of October 2004

Yahoo! started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki"梑oth named after legendary sumo wrestlers. The "yet another" phrasing goes back at least to the Unix utility yacc, whose name is an acronym for "yet another compiler compiler".

Yahoo had its initial public offering on April 12, 1996, selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each.

As Yahoo's popularity has increased, so has the range of features it offers, making it a kind of one-stop shop for all the popular activities of the Internet. These now include: Yahoo! Mail, a Web-based e-mail service, an instant messaging client, a very popular mailing list service (Yahoo! Groups), online gaming and chat, various news and information portals, online shopping and auction facilities. Many of these are based at least in part on previously independent services, which Yahoo has acquired - such as the popular GeoCities free Web-hosting service, Rocketmail, and various competing mailing list providers such as eGroups. Many of these take-overs were controversial and unpopular with users of the existing services, as Yahoo often changed the relevant terms of service. An example of this would be their claiming intellectual property rights for the content on their servers, which the original companies had not done.

At the pinnacle of the Internet boom in the year 2000, the cable news station CNBC reported that Yahoo! Inc. and eBay were in discussions to initiate a 50/50 merger

Yahoo has partnerships with telecommunications and Internet providers - such as BT in the UK, Rogers in Canada and SBC ,Verizon and BellSouth in the US - to create content-rich broadband services to rival those offered by AOL. The company offers a branded credit card, Yahoo! Visa, through a partnership with First USA.

Beginning in late 2002, Yahoo quietly began to bolster its search services by acquiring competing technologies. In December 2002, it acquired Inktomi, and in July 2003, it acquired Overture Services, Inc., and through it, search sites AltaVista and AlltheWeb. On February 18, 2004, Yahoo dropped Google-powered results and returned to using its own technology to provide search results.

As of 2005 Yahoo!'s news message boards have gained something of a cult following. Attached to every story is a discussion board, yet rarely are the posts pertinent to the story. Often, the posts are deliberately outrageous, attempting to provoke angry responses which, in turn, lead to more offensive posts and so on. No news story, however sacrosanct, is spared.

source from Wikipedia.org

[ Last edited by chumpon at 17-3-2006 02:45 PM ]

AzusaFuyutsuki · Post time 11-12-2005 12:18 AM

yahoo headquaters

source from Wikipedia.org

chumpon · Post time 17-3-2006 10:58 AM

Sebelum Internet ada, ARPAnet (US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) atau Departemen Pertahanan Amerika pada tahun 1969 membuat jaringan komputer yang tersebar untuk menghindarkan terjadinya informasi terpusat, yang apabila terjadi perang dapat mudah dihancurkan. Jadi bila satu bagian dari sambungan network terganggu dari serangan musuh, jalur yang melalui sambungan itu secara otomatis dipindahkan ke sambungan lainnya. Setelah itu Internet digunakan oleh kalangan akademis (UCLA) untuk keperluan penelitian dan pengembangan teknologi. Dan baru setelah itu Pemerintah Amerika Serikat memberikan ijin ke arah komersial pada awal tahun 1990.

Ringkasan sejarah:

1960s
Computer scientists research techniques to connect systems on a shared network.
1969
ARPANET (DoD Advanced Research Project Agency) connects UCLA, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Utah, and Stanford Research Institute.
1975
Management of the Internet is transferred to the U.S. Defense Communications Agency.
1979
USENET begins offering its worldwide broadcast conferencing system of newsgroups.
1981
BITNET (Because It's Time Network) begins offering e-mail and list servers for information distribution. CSNET (Computer Science Network) offers dial-up service for e-mail. People can now access the Internet using desktop co mputers.
1982
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) becomes the standard for network communications on ARPANET.
1983
MILNET and DDN (Defense Data Network) split off from ARPANET.
1984
The Domain Name Server (DNS) system is introduced.
1986
The Cleveland FreeNet starts operation.
1987
The National Science Foundation (NSF) signs a $14 million, five-year agreement with IBM, MCI, and the Michigan Educational Research Information Triad to manage the network.
1988
Robert Morris, Jr. releases a "worm" into the Internet. Many computers grind to a halt.
1990
CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Switzerland) develops the World Wide Web.
1991
NSF lifts the restrictions against commercial use of the Internet. DoDDS starts using CC:Mail.
1992
Congress establishes the National Research and Education Network (NREN) as a vision of a national network to serve the educational and research communities. NREN has not been funded.
1993
President Clinton becomes the first head of state to use the Internet for electronic messaging. His address is president@whitehouse.gov.
1994
Digital video and audio transmit over the Internet.
1995
The DoDDS schools in Okinawa establish Internet connections.

HangPC2 · Post time 17-3-2006 11:14 AM

tahun 90 baru nak komersial ...

aku teringat dulu istilah yg sering digunakan ''Information SuperHighwayy'' Lebuhraya Teknologi Maklumat dulu aku ingat aperbenderlah ni....

lepas tu kempen kerajaan ...Cinta IT, Sayang IT