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Unclear or complicated information. Incorrect information. Article not addressing my issue. Yahoo Answers is going to be shut down after more than 15 years of providing the web with hilarious content. The website is first slipping into read-only mode from 20 April, before being shut down entirely on 4 May - redirecting visitors to the Yahoo homepage instead.
When the site disappears then all of its many brilliant questions - with their innovative grammatical and spelling errors, and the amazing credulity of the askers - will be lost, like tears in rain.
While "how is babby formed? How girl get pragnent? It is actually hypothetically possible to walk on the sun - as long as we defined what the surface was - but it would be a brief walk. The user continued: "I wanted to be sure because in biology we learned that it had DNA and stuff so is it safe? The points and level didn't actually do anything, but it helped create a sense of community. That sense of community is one of the things that made Yahoo Answers interesting. When it launched in late , it debuted alongside many of today's internet giants.
Facebook and Reddit were both still in their infancy, and Twitter was only months away. Yahoo Answers wasn't built to compete with any of these networks, but it filled some similar roles. At a time when users online were moving away from traditional message board systems and chat rooms, Yahoo Answers was there -- serving as a half-step between the internet communities of the late s and the social media empires that were about to take over the web.
It's one aspect of the service that survived to the end. Browsing Yahoo Answers' categories in its final days still surfaced plenty of standard questions seeking answers "Can u write on money," or "How do I get a grease stain out of concrete" , but you could also find the same discussions you'd expect on Reddit. These range from new parents asking in the parenting forum what people thought of the name of their child, or political partisans debating the latest headlines in the politics and news sections.
After May 4, the Yahoo question-and-answer service will go the way of GeoCities. There'll be no official attempts to preserve or archive the service.
Unless an outside group takes action, Yahoo Answers' millions of questions -- chaotic, hilarious and sublime -- will be lost to time. Fortunately, this is the internet, where there's always someone happy to preserve a bizarre database of terrible spelling and weird questions -- even if it might not be worth saving.
When Yahoo announced it was shutting the service down, Gizmodo wrote that it created a script that would archive 84 million Yahoo Answers questions to the Internet Archive, but admitted that it would take two years to complete the process. Fortunately, a group called Archive Team started a similar project back in A large portion of Yahoo Answers' publicly available questions are already backed up, and the team has made archiving the rest their "warrior project" focus for spring
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