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If more questions are answered, is it because of the internet or is there some other factor like people having more time to answer questions? It's not like the
by randomdata 4y ago
If more questions are answered, is it because of the internet or is there some other factor like people having more time to answer questions?
It's not like the internet wasn't alive and well 20 years ago. Hell, Stack Exchange is little more than Usenet, and that was in use over 40 years ago.
- kjs3 4y agoThere wasn't a search engine for Usenet for a long time (other than grep'ing the spool dirs), which was frustrating. I would argue it's more like some combo of "more people connected together who can answer, an ability to quickly find relevant pervious answers, coupled with some amount of social capital accrual that makes taking the time to answer worthwhile". Those things make me think 'internet' is at least a big part of the answer.
- wintorez 4y agoSorry, 20 years was an arbitrary number. What I meant was before the internet. :D