Verizon to pull the plug on Yahoo Answers next month
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[The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip):
Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005.
Verizon continues its campaign to destroy every last bit of internet history it owns...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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[The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip):
Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005.
Verizon continues its campaign to destroy every last bit of internet history it owns...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Utterly baffling. How much can it cost them to run it? Even if that is too much, how much can it cost them to store read only archives? They could donate it all to the Internet Archive, of course, if they don't even want to pay the cost of storing an archive. As someone in the UK, Verizon is not directly inflicted on us here (as yet, at least). But from what I have heard it is a singularly 'corporate' corporate, the kind of corporation that Scott Adams would especially mock.
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[The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip):
Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005.
Verizon continues its campaign to destroy every last bit of internet history it owns...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Utterly baffling. How much can it cost them to run it? Even if that is too much, how much can it cost them to store read only archives? They could donate it all to the Internet Archive, of course, if they don't even want to pay the cost of storing an archive. As someone in the UK, Verizon is not directly inflicted on us here (as yet, at least). But from what I have heard it is a singularly 'corporate' corporate, the kind of corporation that Scott Adams would especially mock.
Verizon would burn the Library of Alexandria to the ground if someone was willing to pay them for the ashes in the name of sHaReHoLdEr VaLuE.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
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Utterly baffling. How much can it cost them to run it? Even if that is too much, how much can it cost them to store read only archives? They could donate it all to the Internet Archive, of course, if they don't even want to pay the cost of storing an archive. As someone in the UK, Verizon is not directly inflicted on us here (as yet, at least). But from what I have heard it is a singularly 'corporate' corporate, the kind of corporation that Scott Adams would especially mock.
markrlondon wrote:
Verizon ... the kind of corporation that Scott Adams would especially mock.
And he knows whereof he speaks draws. :)
[History and Timeline | About Verizon](https://www.verizon.com/about/our-company/history-and-timeline):
Verizon Communications was created on June 30, 2000 by Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp.
[Scott Adams - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott\_Adams#Office\_worker):
Adams did not become a cartoonist by mere happenstance: every morning while working at Pacific Bell he had set his alarm clock for 4 a.m.: he would get coffee and then spend the start of his day trying to create a new career for himself.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Verizon would burn the Library of Alexandria to the ground if someone was willing to pay them for the ashes in the name of sHaReHoLdEr VaLuE.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
Unfortunately, true. :sigh:
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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markrlondon wrote:
Verizon ... the kind of corporation that Scott Adams would especially mock.
And he knows whereof he speaks draws. :)
[History and Timeline | About Verizon](https://www.verizon.com/about/our-company/history-and-timeline):
Verizon Communications was created on June 30, 2000 by Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp.
[Scott Adams - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott\_Adams#Office\_worker):
Adams did not become a cartoonist by mere happenstance: every morning while working at Pacific Bell he had set his alarm clock for 4 a.m.: he would get coffee and then spend the start of his day trying to create a new career for himself.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
Verizon Communications was created on June 30, 2000 by Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
While working at Pacific Bell
Ahah, yes of course!