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Yahoo stands for a surprisingly pompous phrase
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Early internet pioneers were truly terrible at naming things. Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo loved the slang word 'yahoo' (meaning rude or uncouth), but they forced it into a massive, pretentious backronym just to sound legitimate. It is a miracle anyone ever trusted an 'officious oracle' to give them sports scores and early 2000s chat rooms.
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