Gen 0: expertsexchange.com, later experts-exchange.com (1996)

Gen 1: stackoverflow.com (2008)

Gen 2: chatgpt.com (2022, sort of)

econ 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yahoo answers

Google answers

And the horrific Quora

None of those worked as programming tools. I really miss Google Answers though, with the bounties.

Random example:

It's remarkable how similar in style the answers are to what we all know from e.g. chatgpt.

	▲	dotancohen 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's remarkable only in the sense that you can see where the LLMs were trained from.
	▲	pvab3 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That would be such a useful service today

NewsaHackO 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>Gen 0: expertsexchange.com

No way.

	▲	lysace 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		It was a more innocent time. Proof: https://web.archive.org/web/19990429180417/http://www.expert...