After 16 years, one of the internet’s first – and most surreal – Q&A platforms is to be shut down
Before Reddit’s Am I the Asshole? forum for the “frustrated moral philosopher”, or days-long Twitter debates about whether you wash your legs in the shower, there was Yahoo Answers: one of the first online crowdsourcing resources, now a repository of infamously idiosyncratic wisdom.
Established in 2005, the “knowledge-sharing” platform was where you might turn for help with a head-scratcher such as “How do I get black ink from a Biro out of coloured clothes?”, “What documents do you need to enter China?” or “Any ladies want to show me their boobs?”.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/15/can-babies-see-ghosts-the-best-of-yahoo-answers
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