In memoriam
Yahoo Answers
Born December 2005. Possessed 4 May 2021.
Yahoo Answers passed on 4 May 2021, though the format remains. Born in December 2005, it offered a question, an answer, and points for participation. At its peak it received more than one hundred twenty million monthly visits. It was the second-largest reference site after Wikipedia. The answers were often wrong. The questions were often absurd. It became a source of memes. Yahoo announced the shutdown in April 2021. Users had until 20 April to post. On 4 May the site redirected to the Yahoo homepage. The archive was deleted. He is survived by Reddit and Quora, which learned to ask and answer; by the format, which endures; and by the memory of a time when the internet could still be wrong in public.
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Discontinued by parent company
Mourned by Those who asked questions before Reddit, users who answered for points, and anyone who remembers when the internet could still be wrong in public.
The format, which lives on in Reddit and Quora; the archive, which was deleted; and the memory of one hundred twenty million monthly visits at its peak.