History of Yahoo!
On March 8, 1997, Yahoo! acquired online communications company Four11. Four11's webmail service, Rocketmail, became Yahoo! Mail. Yahoo! also acquired ClassicGames.com and turned it into Yahoo! Games. Yahoo! then acquired direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. on October 12, 1998. In January 1999, Yahoo! acquired web hosting provider GeoCities. Another company Yahoo! took over was eGroups, which became Yahoo! Groups in June 2000. On March 8, 1998, Yahoo! launched Yahoo! Pager, an instant messaging service that was renamed Yahoo! Messenger a year later.
Yaminoys
The Yaminoys thread transferred to Etrainstation.com when the latter was created on May 18, 2006. The Yaminoys Yahoo group was born ten days before that, with the initial goal of having 100 members; this was achieved in June 2006. At that point, members brainstormed on ways to make Elliott aware that he had an active fan base in the Philippines and convince him to come to the country for a concert. These included sending him a birthday gift, posting updates on his MySpace page regarding the status of the group, and coordinating with his marketing arm, the Croshal Entertainment Group, to ask for updates on when his debut and self-titled album would be available in the Philippines. The group would also request radio stations to play Elliott's first single "Wait For You" following its official release in the U.S., and track its status.