David Filo
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"David Filo" is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)/Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C (programming language)/C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! web site.

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