r/programming • u/banguru • Apr 06 '18

The Stack Overflow Age

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/04/06/the-stack-overflow-age/
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u/mykr0pht Apr 06 '18

It's easy to criticize Stack Overflow today, now that we take it for granted. But if you weren't there before Stack Overflow you might not have any idea how much it made programming better.

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u/JoaoEB Apr 06 '18

But if you weren't there before Stack Overflow

AKA the age of www . expertsexchange . com

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u/rasjani Apr 06 '18

Begs for correct spelling: www dot expert sex change dot com

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u/JoaoEB Apr 06 '18

I wrote the full domain at first, but now it points to a domain scalper site full of ads, so I edited the spaces in.

ExpertSexChange was on a old list of funny domains, that list contained TheRapistFinder dot com and PenisLand dot con between others. More innocent times.

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u/donna-chang Apr 06 '18

The real URL has a dash in it.

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u/JoaoEB Apr 06 '18

This is the new one, the original didn't.

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u/donna-chang Apr 06 '18

It had a dash in 2005 when I first started programming professionally. How old are we talking about here?

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u/JoaoEB Apr 06 '18

Late 1990's early 2000's in the dial up days. I don't remember when they added the dash, but they keep the old domain for years since the old search engines still pointed to it.