Yahoo! (Yet another hierarchically officious oracle!)

A Web directory developed in the early 1990s

by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang. Yahoo! has expanded into a full-featured Web portal, including a search engine, chat groups, instant messaging (IM), and e-mail. The word Yahoo was coined by Jonathan Swift in his book Gulliver’s Travels (1726), referring to a race of foul, uncultivated, loutish, brutish creatures in the form of men. The term has since evolved to refer to a coarse, unrefined, unruly, crudely materialistic person. Filo and Yang reportedly selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos. See also endianess.

• copper (Cu)
• Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI)
• copyright (©)
• cordboard
• cordless telephone
• Cordless Telephony generation 0 (CT0)
• Cordless Telephony generation 1 (CT1)
• Cordless Telephony generation 1 plus (CT1+)
• Cordless Telephony generation 2 (CT2)
• Cordless Telephony generation 2 plus (CT2+)
• Cordless Telephony generation 3 (CT3)
• core
• core
• core switch
• core switch
• CoS (Class of Service)
• cost
• coulomb (C)
• counterintuitive
• country code
• country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD)
• coupler
• coupling efficiency
• coupling loss
• Coy, George W.