To Yahoo! Users Around the World,
A Letter from Yahoo!'s Founders

Today marks Yahoo! Inc.'s 10th birthday.  Here at Yahoo!, our users are at the heart of everything we do, and we are excited to be able to celebrate our birthday with you.

As we take a moment to reflect back on the last ten years, we think about how far Yahoo! and the Internet have come.  We've grown from "David & Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web," which was a short list of websites we thought were cool, to Yahoo! now, the most heavily trafficked Internet destination in the world, touching the lives of more than 300 million people every month.  We know that we couldn't have gotten here without you, our loyal users.

We thought Yahoo! Inc.'s 10th birthday would be a great excuse to take a look back and think about how the Internet has developed over the last ten years, becoming an essential part of all of our daily lives.  We've created a special site, Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, which celebrates the web's history over the last decade.  We hope the Yahoo! Netrospective will take you on a trip down memory lane, in a format we think is really cool.

All of us at Yahoo! are already working on the next 10 years and are certain that over the next decade Yahoo! will be even more exciting, more innovation-filled, and even more essential to you, our users.

It has been a great ride, and you know what? We think the best is yet to come.

- David Filo & Jerry Yang, founders of Yahoo!