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The user continued: "I wanted to be sure because in biology we learned that it had DNA and stuff so is it safe? They also asked: "My sister walks around with out socks on all the time and her feet ar starting to stink really bad, why? Although official accounts claim that French philosopher Gilles Deleuze died in , but this question contributes to a body of evidence he was active online up until quite recently, posting metaphysical provocations on Yahoo Answers This purrplexed user wrote: "Her chest always vibrates like she was worms or something in her.

Is it normal? When she vibrated she makes a tiny vibrate noise and its scaring me it doesn't seem normal! BUT," begins this anonymous post. But I think it's even more fun to try to think of an answer that might help them. Earlier this month, in a decision that several Twitter users compared to the burning of the Library of Alexandria, Yahoo announced it would be shutting down Yahoo Answers, thus deleting the platform's entire backlog of posts.

The last day to post questions and answers is Tuesday, April 20, before it's taken down altogether on May 4. Yahoo Answers' disappearance also leaves a void for all the people who've made a living off the content posted there, according to McElroy. But McElroy added that the real loss will be all those curious Yahoo Answers users who will now have to go unanswered.

And sad for what they will be missing. Broderick said even if the platform doesn't make financial sense to the company anymore, the mark it leaves on internet culture is unquestionable. That sense of community is one of the things that made Yahoo Answers interesting.

When it launched in late , it debuted alongside many of today's internet giants. Facebook and Reddit were both still in their infancy, and Twitter was only months away. Yahoo Answers wasn't built to compete with any of these networks, but it filled some similar roles.

At a time when users online were moving away from traditional message board systems and chat rooms, Yahoo Answers was there -- serving as a half-step between the internet communities of the late s and the social media empires that were about to take over the web. It's one aspect of the service that survived to the end. Browsing Yahoo Answers' categories in its final days still surfaced plenty of standard questions seeking answers "Can u write on money," or "How do I get a grease stain out of concrete" , but you could also find the same discussions you'd expect on Reddit.

These range from new parents asking in the parenting forum what people thought of the name of their child, or political partisans debating the latest headlines in the politics and news sections. After May 4, the Yahoo question-and-answer service will go the way of GeoCities. There'll be no official attempts to preserve or archive the service.

Unless an outside group takes action, Yahoo Answers' millions of questions -- chaotic, hilarious and sublime -- will be lost to time. Fortunately, this is the internet, where there's always someone happy to preserve a bizarre database of terrible spelling and weird questions -- even if it might not be worth saving. When Yahoo announced it was shutting the service down, Gizmodo wrote that it created a script that would archive 84 million Yahoo Answers questions to the Internet Archive, but admitted that it would take two years to complete the process.

Fortunately, a group called Archive Team started a similar project back in A large portion of Yahoo Answers' publicly available questions are already backed up, and the team has made archiving the rest their "warrior project" focus for spring For better or worse, Yahoo Answers' weird legacy will be preserved on the Internet Archive.