How early though? I stopped using them about 12 years ago due to the toxic environment.
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deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
LLM’s won’t be helping but SE/SO have been fully enshitifying themselves for years.
It was amazing in yhe early days.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 days ago
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
When it was just SO I think… if my memory serves. When it was small enough that only a (relative) few programmers were using it and generally behaving well.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
It was a vast improvement over expert sex change, which was the king before SO.
KudoMonstro@lemmy.world 3 days ago
expertSEXchange dot com hahahahaahahahahahahahaha oh that brought me some dreadful memories! Thanks for the laugh and rhe chills
stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That and the url for Pen Is Mightier (penismightier.com) are my favorite examples of poor url choice in the early days of the internet.