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Jonathan A. Yang '02, who came down with a high fever and excessive drowsiness of Tuesday, said his illness caused him to miss his first class since fourth grade...
...worst fever," Yang said...
...DIED. YANG SHANGKUN, 91, former Chinese President and unreconstructed Marxist who in 1989 gave the order for the People's Liberation Army to fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. A veteran of the Long March, Shangkun was an acolyte of Mao Zedong, and later his victim, imprisoned for 12 years during the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1978, he was put in charge of the army by longtime revolutionary compatriot Deng Xiaoping...
...legend about the origin of the name is that it was a playful acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." Yang, however, says they picked it out of a dictionary. "We thought it fit well with what we were doing. It was irreverent, it was reflective of the Wild West nature of the Internet, and a lot of people found it easy to remember, which we thought was probably good." Yang also says that when he asked Moritz if they should change the name to something more serious, Moritz replied that if they did, he'd take back his money...
...spring of 1995, Yang and Filo put their doctoral theses on hold and moved into their first office, in nearby Mountain View, in the heart of Silicon Valley, near some railroad tracks. It was a relatively big suite, around 1,700 sq. ft., which they needed for the computer servers that would gather and store the data, and the people who would feed and care for them. But by the end of the year they needed more space and moved into a 12,000-sq.-ft. site in Sunnyvale, where they went public. "We thought, 'This is great...