Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th -
- Thread starter Nguyen Van Phuoc
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Sister services, email, and search will continue to be negatively effected by the attacks. I made a thread to talk about it, if you're into networking.
You do know what an email client is, right?
I used it heavy during the 2008-2012 glory years vintage.
I remember Fizzdude, who sharted on every P&S question he could.
Also I recall some of the leaderboard heavyweights, like Happy Murcia and that American fag with the spaceman avatar; the latter ending up the all time YA leading point scorer. When one of these guys answered in your question, it was like seeing a film star in the local McDonald’s.
It lost something after 2011 or so, and I never bothered with it afterwards. Still, no-one can take away my 5-month stint as a ‘Top Contributor’ in the mathematics section. Hail to the fucking king.
I remember trying to get answers for math homework with Chacha. Almost every time I looked an answer up, the top answer was something along the lines of, "Do it yourself."
Younger people will have no idea what is it like to use an Internet where you can basically do anything. But hey, they can stream videos in high definition, so it's progress.... right?
I instinctively clicked a yahoo answers link today and was sad when it didn't work.
I'm sad now because I forgot to screenshot or archive one of the answers to the "how fast can sheep run?" question in the LGBT section. Some idiot claimed that sheep could run at 70 miles per hour. This is 15 miles per hour faster than the fastest land animal, the cheetah, and easily more than enough to get a speeding ticket on a Jimmy Carter-era US interstate highway. Given the level of stupidity on display, I suspect that if I brought this up that they would try to claim that sheep were aquatic.
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The Internet? No one uses that anymore.
This upsets me. Yahoo Answers has always been such a hub for retards and it gave me hours of laughs. I thought the initial warnings said the site was going to be "read only" which made me think I could still view it. It looks like the whole thing's been wiped. I'm pissed.
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And thus the collective IQ of the web increases by 50 points.
Not for email but it has some great clickbait and lulzy articles. Sadly the comments were killed off too.
Super-Chevy454
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There might be some parts who was saved on the Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/*/answers.yahoo.com
It's just a fad.
Super-Chevy454
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I think the next remnant of Web 2.0 to collapse might be what's left of Gawker with Kotaku, Jezabel,....
It’s already happening. I think a lot of Gawker articles have been lost permanently. Not that I’m shedding a tear for them.
Picklechu
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I was pretty sad when I saw this. I remember trolling the shit out of people on Yahoo Answers when I was a kid. The only domestic Yahoo product/brand left that's worth a damn is Yahoo Finance (and even then there is plenty of competition that functions basically the same), so I won't be surprised if Apollo ends up killing it off of ruining it once they finish buying Yahoo from Verizon.
What else does Yahoo even have anymore? An email service that no one uses except the people who signed up for it 20 years ago, a web portal that no one uses, and a rebadged version of Bing. The only place the Yahoo brand is even successful anymore is Japan, and Yahoo doesn't even own that - SoftBank has total ownership.
What else does Yahoo even have anymore? An email service that no one uses except the people who signed up for it 20 years ago, a web portal that no one uses, and a rebadged version of Bing. The only place the Yahoo brand is even successful anymore is Japan, and Yahoo doesn't even own that - SoftBank has total ownership.
And taking it's place is the animated corpse that is the honknet of Clown World.
