March 29, 2008
Yeehaw?
Identify and connect
Disclosure: I’ve shamelessly flicked this question from some other quiz. Unfortunately I can’t remember which right now. All credit goes to the original QM :)
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Answer:
- Jerry Yang and sumo wrestler Akebono
- David Filo and sumo wrestler Konishiki
Yahoo was initially hosted off Yang and Filo’s servers at Stanford; The servers were called Akebana and Konishiki respectively. ( http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html )
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March 29th, 2008 at 11:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206790836 )
1. Jerry Yang and Akebono TarÅ
2. David Filo and Konishiki Yasokichi
Jerry Yang and David Filo, co-founders of Yahoo Inc, became addicted to Sumo Wrestling when they were graduate exchange students together in Kyoto in 1992 while at Stanford.
Jerry Yang and David Filo named their first servers after great sumo wrestlers Akebono and Konishiki respectively.
March 29th, 2008 at 12:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1206793287 )
Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Akebono and Konishiki (legendary sumo wrestlers).
Yahoo! first resided on Yang’s student workstation, “Akebono,” while the software was lodged on Filo’s computer, “Konishiki”.
hehe, on a side note: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/480504
March 29th, 2008 at 7:17 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1206818257 )
1) Jerry Yang’s workstation was Akebobono.
2) David Filo’s workstation was Konishiki.
Yahoo! is the connect.
PS: Dude, I’ve registered and had my display name as ‘Srikanth’. Now, i changed it to my email id. I hope it works.
March 29th, 2008 at 7:47 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1206820078 )
Yang and Filo, Yahoo creators. Supposedly the first Yahoo servers were named for sumo wrestlers – I think that’s an urban legend though.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1206822036 )
Yahoo! was founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang.
Yahoo! first resided on Yang’s student workstation, “Akebono,” while the software was lodged on Filo’s computer, “Konishiki” – both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
1. Jerry Yang and Taro Akebono
2.David Filo and Konishiki Yasokichi
March 29th, 2008 at 8:49 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1206823761 )
yahoo co founders and original servers.. (1)jerry yang & akebono
(2)David Filo & Konishiki
March 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1206829914 )
1 and 2 are Yahoo founders Jerry Yang n David Filo,who had a sumo wrestling match in the Yahoo campus,as a reward to d employees,for droppin their usage of non-renewable resources by 20%..
March 30th, 2008 at 4:29 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206851369 )
1. Jerry Yang.
2. David Filo.
Both are the founders of Yahoo!.
The corresponding picture to their right are the sumo wrestlers after whom their personal workstations were named. Akebono and Konishiki respectively.
Yahoo! was hosted at akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo and the software was lodged in konishiki.stanford.edu.
March 30th, 2008 at 6:03 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206857009 )
1. Jerry Yang and Akebono
2. David Filo and Konishiki
Yahoo! site was on Yang’s student workstation, “Akebono,” while the software was on Filo’s computer, “Konishiki” – both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
March 30th, 2008 at 6:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206859039 )
jerry yang and david filo Y! co founders
Their data was kept on their Stanford computers, “Akebono” and “Konishiki,” legendary Hawaiian sumo wrestlers.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206868349 )
Some funda about Yahoo’s servers called Akebono after sumo wrestlers..initial URL akebono.stanford.edu
March 30th, 2008 at 9:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206868401 )
Some funda about Yahoo’s servers called Akebono after sumo wrestlers..initial URL akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo
March 30th, 2008 at 9:37 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206869826 )
Yahoo founders and the sumo wrestlers after whom their workstations were named.
Jerry Yang – Akebono
David Filo – Konishiki
March 30th, 2008 at 9:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206870416 )
Akebono and Konishiki – Yahoo’s first servers.
Yang and Filo – Yahoo’s first masters. :D
Good good, I like the free publicity my company is getting :D
March 30th, 2008 at 9:48 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206870512 )
Jerry Yang and David Filo, founders of Yahoo!
The huge guys are Akebono and Konishiki(or pics of me and Srikanth from college, I’m not sure).
Yahoo’s services were first deployed on servers/machines which were named after the famous Hawaiian sumo wrestlers.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1206871054 )
1. Jerry Yang and Akebono. Yang’s “Yahoo!” was initially hosted at http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/ on a server named after Akebono.
2. David Filo and Konishiki. Filo’s computer was called Konishiki, and it housed some of the codes.
Connect is Yahoo!, of course.