成人英语三级阅读理解(56)

Yahoo was the first wonder of the web, and in many ways, it still is. It started in January 1994 when two California university graduate students, Jery Yang and David Filo, started compiling a database of links, mainly for their personal use. But well before the end of the year, it had become recognizable as the Yahoo we know today. In the past few years, Yahoo has expanded its range largely, partly through a long string of buys. Yahoo now offers almost everything you want: email, instant messaging, chat, clubs, photo albums, home web pages, file storage, shop, auctions, classified ads and more.

雅虎曾是网络的第一奇迹，从很多方面来看,它现在仍是如此。它始于1994年，当时加州大学的两个研究生——杨致远和大卫·菲勒, 开始汇编一个各种网络链接的数据库，主要供自己使用，但还远不到那年年底, 它就已经成了现今我们所熟知的雅虎。过去几年里，雅虎的规模迅速扩大，很大原因在于一系列的收购。如今雅虎提供的内容几乎无所不包：电子邮件、即时信息、聊天、俱乐部、相集、主页、文件存贮、购物、拍卖以及分类广告等等。