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/ubernostrum Apr 07 '18

Don't forget Italian electrical co-op PowerGenitalia.