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0 pointsdrbawb12y ago0 comments

The only Q&A I can recall before StackOverflow was finding answers on a message board _or_ finding the answers hidden behind a pay-wall. (e.g: ExpertsExchange, which I believe has been around since the 90s.)

StackOverflow was definitely a game-changer.

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ccozan12y ago

the EE answers were never really behind a paywall, simply they were so hidden at the bottom of the page that a normal user did had the idea to scroll fully. After all, they needed to present the information to the google bot.

Shog912y ago

Did you ever try passing one of those links to a colleague? They were doing some referrer-checking at one point - if you weren't coming from Google, you didn't get the answer.

JTon12y ago

Oh really, I had no idea they were doing this. Any idea why?

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