Yahoo yahoo traces its roots to the internet scams of the 1980s and 90s, and the word was coined due to the fact that Yahoo services were the only means of communicating with clients globally.

During this dark age, if you wanted to do anything on the web, you needed to go to a cyber cafe, the first of which opened in the late 90s in Nigeria and gave the country its first taste of globalization. You went in, bought a ticket on an hourly basis, and did everything you wanted to do, from checking your Yahoo mail to browsing inane stuff or researching (for the nerds).

However, it was mostly for checking emails and communicating with friends and families all over the world. And this is where the word yahoo yahoo originated from. Before Google came and stole the show with its search engine and mail service, Yahoo was the first to do all of these.

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