Scott Yanoff (born October 20, 1969) is an IT manager and

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who was a key person in the early days of the internet, most notably for creating and maintaining the ''Yanoff List'', an alphabetical list of internet sites.

Career

Yanoff authored the ''Inter-Network Mail Guide'', a text written in 1997 documenting the different methods of sending email from one network to another. He was also a co-author of ''The Web Site Administrator's Survival Guide'' with Jerry Ablan, a book that explains how to set up, administer, care for, and feed your own Web server. Most of this work was accomplished as an undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, while working as a mainframe/ UNIX consultant for the university. He has worked for SpectraCom, Inc., and the now-defunct Strong Capital Management in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and at Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from February, 2004 to June, 2023.

The ''Yanoff List''

In the early and mid-1990s, before the use of search engines, the ''Yanoff List'' became an important tool for internet users. The list consisted of internet sites listed alphabetically and grouped by subject acting as a type of internet yellow pages containing hundreds of FTP, gopher, and web locations relevant to each subject. Users of the internet in the early 1990s would eagerly await the latest version of this list. As a minor tribute to his service, a popular Palm-based newsreader, Yanoff, was named after him.

Additional work

Yanoff created a

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called "iTunesStats" in 2008 that can be run on Windows-based computers to generate a file of statistics of one's listening habits based upon the user's iTunes library. Additionally, he transposed popular music guitar tablature in the 1990s including that of The Beatles, R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, and U2.

References

External links

Yanoff family websiteiTunesStats scriptElectronic Publishing on the Internet, Case Study - Yanoff List
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yanoff, Scott Living people Computer programmers University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni 1969 births