For that matter, Yahoo! was so big in the 90s because it was a more or less successful human curation of the Web as it existed at the time that offered better d

For that matter, Yahoo! was so big in the 90s because it was a more or less successful human curation of the Web as it existed at the time that offered better discovery than e.g. WebCrawler. And the first two letters of its name stood for "Yet Another" because it wasn't a new idea then, either.