How did StackOverflow win? And why did yahoo answers and ask.com die?

I have literally never heard of that website in my life. How did they win?

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>>1824303

They got all the users which sparked network effects - essentially killing off all alternatives.

But the question is what they did that attracted all those initial users in the first place?

yahoo/ask
>good luck finding answers in retardville

stackoverflow
>niche, people are either right or wrong, you can't bullshit how to program

quora
>what did you eat for breakfast, drew houston?

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>Yahoo was full of five-year-olds and retards
>Nobody's heard of ask.com
>Quora just links to Wikipedia pages

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>>1824355
>>1824482

I was about to argue that yahoo couldn't possibly be that bad

turns out you guys weren't lying

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>>1824500
>What are you gonna feed me?

Yahoo answers is a joke filled with shit like "I'm 14 and my penis is 12 inches is this normal?"

>>1824759
Kek'd