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:

1. Jerry Yang and sumo wrestler Akebono
2. 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 )