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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by lysace on Saturday January 03, 2026 @06:33PM (#46482960)
Gen 0: expertsexchange.com, later experts-exchange.com (1996)

Gen 1: stackoverflow.com (2008)

Gen 2: chatgpt.com (2022, sort of)

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by econ on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:12PM (#46483277)
Yahoo answers

Google answers

And the horrific Quora

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by lysace on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:46PM (#46483534)
None of those worked as programming tools. I really miss Google Answers though, with the bounties.

Random example:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/762357.html

It's remarkable how similar in style the answers are to what we all know from e.g. chatgpt.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by dotancohen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:48PM (#46484303)
It's remarkable only in the sense that you can see where the LLMs were trained from.
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by pvab3 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @09:50PM (#46484314)
That would be such a useful service today
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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by NewsaHackO on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:46PM (#46483535)
>Gen 0: expertsexchange.com

No way.

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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time by lysace on Saturday January 03, 2026 @07:47PM (#46483540)
It was a more innocent time.
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