Talk about humble beginnings. Yahoo! was started by two Electrical Engineering students in their campus trailer. They began collecting links to their favorite websites and categorizing them, in February 1994.
In the ancient Greek culture, the word logo literally meant "word" or "speech". Other cultures - the Babylonian, Egyptian Assyrian, Chinese or Mayan used pictographs to communicate words and ideas. Today, as you all know, the word logo represents a creative merge between words and icons, indicating the two most important constituents of a corporate identity.