On 18 January appeared domain yahoo.com — the most popular site of the 90s. the Internet portal at that time already existed for about a year.
Yahoo! developed rapidly. At first it was called “on the road with David and Jerry on the world wide web” (the names of the founders — Jerry Yang and David Filo) and was a structured catalogue of web sites then close the Internet. The “guide” was only a hobby project by two students at Stanford University, but very soon the site has become for them a fact of life, and for thousands and millions of Internet users starting page. In the first five months of Yahoo! visited 100 thousand persons — for 94 years this increase in popularity was truly explosive.
Yahoo! sample 1994
Modern name (but not address) he received in March of the same year, but before the registration of the domain had only in January ‘ 95, when on the horizon loomed the investment of two million dollars. There are different versions of what Yang and Filo put in the name “Yahoo!”. Perhaps it is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” (“another Oracle structured for office plankton”). Others say that you need to look in the direction of the slang meanings of the word: so in the US called simple guys from the South of the country — something like a “redneck” (and for the first time the word occurs in “Gulliver’s Travels” swift).
In two decades Yahoo! was the UPS and downs, and always remained at the hearing — in the twenty-first century, as a rule, bad news. Soaring to the top of the Internet to 98 year (when Yahoo! has become the most visited website on the planet), by early 2000 the company was worth $ 100 billion. Then “Yahoo” was, of course, is not just a catalogue of sites. It turned into a full-fledged portal with personalized news, weather, stock quotes, email and search over the Network.
Later it fall to $10 billion, buying and suffocation by omission of several popular sites that offer from Microsoft for $ 45 billion, waiver and partnership in the search, a series of General and chaotic management. Now Yahoo! continues to lose users, but does it with enthusiasm and a twinkle in his eye — just like old times.
18 January 2005 saw the greatest light of modern passenger aircraft — Airbus A380. The development of the huge double-Decker aircraft, popularly known as the Superjumbo, began in the mid-90s, and on this day in 2005, the year of the A380 appeared on the scene in Toulouse. The first flight had to wait another three months.
Airbus A380
Airbus A380 capacity depends on the specific cabin layout and seats. The “passionately” the Board ordered the airline Lufthansa, the A380 raises more than five hundred people. Airbus received from Air Austral order the plane with 840 passenger seats, but the customer changed his mind, and “air bus” was never built. Most 380-owned Emirates Airline, the Arabs bought 72 side. They chose a specific layout for maximum comfort: in their A380 bar, and shower and restroom, and shop “duty free”.
Today, after more than a decade, the Airbus A380 is the biggest passenger aircraft in the world. But if you take into account cargo planes, there will be “birds” and larger.
The world’s largest aircraft