Scott Yanoff

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Scott Yanoff was a key person in the early days of the internet, most notably for creating and and maintaining the "Yanoff List."

In the early and mid-1990s, before the use of search engines, the Yanoff List became an essential 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.[1] As a minor tribute to his service, a popular Palm-based newsreader, Yanoff, was named after him. [2]

Yanoff authored the Inter-Network Mail Guide[3], 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.^{[citation needed]}

He is also the author of the humorous text A Day in the Life of a Computer Addict, and his guitar tablature transcriptions of U2 and Bruce Springsteen songs can often be found on the Internet.

He has worked for the now-defunct Strong Capital Management in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and currently works for Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.