{"id":32066,"date":"2021-04-05T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32066"},"modified":"2021-04-05T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:58:36","slug":"yahoo-answers-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/05\/yahoo-answers-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Answers Shutting Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/5\/22368488\/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4\">Nick Statt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/5\/22368488\/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4\">\n<p>Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&amp;A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That&rsquo;s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform&rsquo;s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo, which is now part of Verizon Media Group following the company&rsquo;s sale to the telecom for nearly $5 billion in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/\">announced the change<\/a> at the top of the Yahoo Answers homepage. The message links to an <a href=\"https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/SLN35642.html\">FAQ<\/a>, which details the timeline of the shutdown.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/16\/yahoo-groups-shutting-down\/\">Yahoo Groups Shutting Down<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/26\/verizon-acquires-yahoo\/\">Verizon Acquires Yahoo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Statt: Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&amp;A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That&rsquo;s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform&rsquo;s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-04-05T20:58:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"0f88a2c4-c574-44ea-987e-13325bfe1e90","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-04-05T20:58:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AD4iixMV0ROqYfhMyW_4ekA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1016,1451,96,459],"class_list":["post-32066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-datacide","tag-sunset","tag-web","tag-yahoo"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32067,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32066\/revisions\/32067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}