Creativity through the years – 1994
Over the next 25 posts, ending on my birthday, I will be covering an incredibly creative moment or idea from a year of my life AND one creative moment in either the marketing, advertising, technology or media world.
1994…The year that I found my new genre of books to love and “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” was created.
As I’m sure you saw from my post about creating books in 1990, I fell in love with reading and writing at a very young age. In 1994, I found mystery novels. I started with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, and as the years progressed worked my way up through Diane Mott Davidson’s collections (Chef who solves crimes, how cool!), and Mary Higgins Clark The problem? My overactive imagination often meant that I didn’t sleep very well after…Luckily, that never deterred my love for reading and I still enjoy mystery (with a splash of romance).
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle…better known as Yahoo! was started by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. It was originally meant to keep track of their like interests on the Internet. But, they decided to make it available for friends and family. As word began to spread, the users stemmed outside of their contacts and grew rapidly. They experienced their first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, and knew they were on to something. 2 years, 8 investors, 49 employees and a $2 million dollar investment later, Yahoo! officially took the Internet world by storm. This just goes to show you, brilliant ideas do not always start as something phenomenal. All it takes is one idea and the drive to make it happen…
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