Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021

Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by echelon on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:08PM (#26704759)

The most memorable thing from Yahoo Answers is the "how is babby formed" meme.

It never attracted high quality Q&A, and was a joke from day one.

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Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by brudgers on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:14PM (#26704821)

The upside of the question is it was an example for StackOverflow...a negative example of course. Spolsky talks about it all the time in the early StackOverflow podcasts.

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Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by MiddleEndian on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:23PM (#26705414)

I think they were better than expertsexchange at least. It was low quality but it was simple and free to access.

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Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by aidenn0 on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:11PM (#26707591)

expertsexchange had possibly the best (inadvertent?) double-entendre domain name ever.

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Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by MiddleEndian on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:44AM (#26708010)

Can't argue with that lol

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Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by TedDoesntTalk on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:10PM (#26704779)

https://youtu.be/Ll-lia-FEIY

Still makes me laugh

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Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by MiddleEndian on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:18PM (#26705371)

I mean, is it really any worse than Quora? I will miss it.

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