January 17, 2012
Yahoo! Remembered
Posted by Gordon Smith

Jerry Yang is stepping down from Yahoo's board of directors. He seems like a dinosaur, but he is only 43 years old. This is what the Yahoo! web directory looked at in 1996 (click on it for the full effect), the year of Yahoo!'s successful IPO:

Yahoo

The Internet was a lot smaller back then, and a web directory made more sense. Yahoo! editors have continued to maintain the web directory, which they say is useful when "you're not sure how to describe what you want."

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