Comment by lysace
5 months ago
Gen 0: expertsexchange.com, later experts-exchange.com (1996)
Gen 1: stackoverflow.com (2008)
Gen 2: chatgpt.com (2022, sort of)
5 months ago
Gen 0: expertsexchange.com, later experts-exchange.com (1996)
Gen 1: stackoverflow.com (2008)
Gen 2: chatgpt.com (2022, sort of)
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:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/762357.html
It's remarkable how similar in style the answers are to what we all know from e.g. chatgpt.
It's remarkable only in the sense that you can see where the LLMs were trained from.
That would be such a useful service today
>Gen 0: expertsexchange.com
No way.
It was a more innocent time.
Proof: https://web.archive.org/web/19990429180417/http://www.expert...