• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    It was Experts Exchange. Then they paywalled everything like greedy idiots - hiding decades of useful community knowledge.

    Then everyone moved rapidly to StackExchange, which had coexisted but been quite small until EE did their thing.

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      12 hours ago

      Ah, software developing nerds and expertsexchange. A story as old as time.

      It starts with innocent questions, then thigh highs during long coding sessions and… you know the rest. It’s all in the name! 😅