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If you grew up during the age of the internet, you'll be pretty familiar with Yahoo! by now.
It's been helping people find their way around the world wide web for nearly three decades, but people have only now discovered what it actually means.
Way back in January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo developed the website, but it was originally named Jerry and David's Guide before Yahoo! came along just three months later.
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It's taken 29 years for people to realise what the name actually stands for, as many people appear to have been confused for years.
One Reddit user quipped: "I thought it was You Always Have Other Options."
Another added: "It's a backronym and I don't care how many Yahoo flacks say otherwise."
Jerry and David, who were electrical engineering graduate students at the time, came up with the domain name yahoo.com in January 1995.
The pair simply liked the term's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where it was described as "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
If you didn't know, the word is also a backronym, which is an acronym formed from a word that already exists for Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle.
During the late 1990s, the website grew in popularity together with the likes of MSN, Lycos and Excite, and its stock price doubled by December 1999.
It rapidly became the place to go for all the latest news, showbiz, lifestyle and sports updates.
The information was put together by a team in America and, as little as six months later, Yahoo and Google signed an agreement which enabled Google to power searches made on yahoo.com.
According to The Mirror, a lot of people say the website's downfall is the result of unfair acquisitions, rejecting a proposal made by Microsoft and deciding not to buy Facebook.
Commenting on the matter, one user said: "Keep in mind, Google, Facebook, et al, may not have become what they are today if Yahoo had bought them.
"They've made such poor decisions it's likely they'd have run them into the ground still."
A second added: "I am old and remember the days when Yahoo was booming. Where it all changed was when Google became their search and they allowed it to be branded Google.
"It did not take long before basically Google had 'stole' all of Yahoo's customers.
"I was thinking at the time how crazy it was for Yahoo to allow Google to be branded instead of using in the background without any Google branding."
A third also chirped in: "I remember in early 2000s everyone's browser homepage was Yahoo (at least in Hong Kong, yahoo.com.hk to be exact). It had got everything, daily news highlights, email, dictionary, search engine.
"It still feels incredible that we've got rid of Yahoo in favour of a blank search engine page nowadays."
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