Yahoo the ever popular search engine is set to celebrate it’s 10th anniversary shortly…who would have thought that something that started out as a simple idea would grow into what it has today.

It only serves to reinforce the theory that if you have an idea and the vision run with it for you never know where it will take you.

Co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo parlayed Yahoo Inc. from a college hobby into a full-time job 10 years ago, but the Internet icon was never quite comfortable with the happy-go-lucky mood of the dot-com boom.

It’s not that Yang and Filo don’t like to have fun. After all, they gave their company a name often associated with rubes and adopted a joyful yodel as their calling card.

“We were certainly not sophisticated or civilized,” Yang joked during an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the March 2 anniversary of Yahoo’s inception.

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As if we didn’t have enough to worry about in regards to keeping our businesses safe here’s another possible concern to add to your list.

Anick Jesdanun tells the story:

An Internet browser feature meant to permit Web addresses in Chinese, Arabic and other languages could encourage online fraudsters by making scam Web sites look legitimate to visitors.

For once, the affected browser is not the industry-leading Internet Explorer from Microsoft Corp. but rather several of its more robust competitors.

That’s because the aging IE lacks support for internationalized domain names, at least without a plug-in, which would then make IE vulnerable.

“It’s kind of ironic that it affects some of the supposedly safer browsers,” said Neel Mehta, a research engineer at the Internet Security Systems Inc.

A fix won’t be easy because the vulnerability, publicized at a weekend hacker conference, that enables so-called “phishing” scams involves a feature, not a coding error.

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So you want to purchase a piece of Computer and Internet history?

Christie’s are running an auction on 23 February 2005 in New York where they expect this little piece of history to sell for over $2 million!!!

Talk to you Bank Manager now..this could be your only chance.

Laura Rohde continues…

“The sale of the “The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking, & Telecommunications,” slated for the end of the month, consists of 255 lots, contains 1141 items”

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