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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