Web Hosting Glossary Terms starting with Letter Y
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A glossary is defined as an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field. This Web Hosting Glossary section is specially designed to explain most of the terms that you should read and understand before you choose your web hosting service provider.
Yahoo
One of the largest most popular human-edited web directories on the Internet. Extracted from their website " Yahoo's two founders, David Filo and Jerry Yang, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born ."
See also:(Search Engine)
YMODEM
Popular file transfer protocol. It is faster than XMODEM.
