Yahoo corporate blog romanticizes the pre-layoff era

09.03.2009
Ah, those were the days -- March 1995, when Stanford students Jerry Yang and David Filo officially incorporated Yahoo. It took them another six months to get around to writing a business plan. Yahoo's corporate blog shares some of the and an important cultural touchstone: When Yahoo incorporated, Jerry Garcia was still leading the Grateful Dead. (Garcia died on the day of Netscape's IPO -- August 9, 1995.)

Look closely at the photos for some other artifacts from that era: Filo's bare feet and ripped jeans, Yahoo's gray 1995 homepage (with 31,897 entries), the X-Files photo tacked up on a cubicle wall, the stack of music CDs, and Yang's easygoing smile. Remember those?