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0 pointsechelon5y ago0 comments

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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brudgers5y ago· 2 in thread

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.

MiddleEndian5y ago

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

aidenn05y ago

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

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TedDoesntTalk5y ago

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

Still makes me laugh

MiddleEndian5y ago

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

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