16 Responses to “Yeehaw?”

1. madhur

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   1. Jerry Yang and Akebono Tarō 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.

   
   
2. duriel

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   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

   
   
3. svgreatest

   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.

   
   
4. manubhardwaj

   Yang and Filo, Yahoo creators. Supposedly the first Yahoo servers were named for sumo wrestlers – I think that’s an urban legend though.

   
   
5. teju

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   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

   
   
6. jayanth

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   yahoo co founders and original servers.. (1)jerry yang & akebono (2)David Filo & Konishiki

   
   
7. varuns88

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   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%..

   
   
8. rajeshvj

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   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.

   
   
9. shashank

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   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.

   
   
10. yaksha

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    jerry yang and david filo Y! co founders Their data was kept on their Stanford computers, “Akebono” and “Konishiki,” legendary Hawaiian sumo wrestlers.

    
    
11. Rohan

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    Some funda about Yahoo’s servers called Akebono after sumo wrestlers..initial URL akebono.stanford.edu

    
    
12. Rohan

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    Some funda about Yahoo’s servers called Akebono after sumo wrestlers..initial URL akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo

    
    
13. Biki

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    Yahoo founders and the sumo wrestlers after whom their workstations were named. Jerry Yang – Akebono David Filo – Konishiki

    
    
14. udupendra

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    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

    
    
15. Prasad

    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.

    
    
16. Dibyo

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    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.