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When were Sun Microsystems and Yahoo founded by Stanford students?
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Sun Microsystems and Yahoo were both founded by individuals associated with Stanford University in the following years:
- Sun Microsystems: Founded in 1982 by a team that included individuals who developed the "Stanford University Network" workstation.123
- Yahoo: Founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were graduate students at Stanford University at the time.43