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I had to google for what "^H" meant.

Found an interesting answer and backstory: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html

I used to joke that I was going to have "stty erase ^H" etched on my gravestone. It's probably been 25+ years since I've last needed to type that, but I can still hammer it out crazy fast. Sadly, that muscle memory is taking up neurons that'll never be used for anything else.

> taking up neurons

As long as they're not being used to hold "celebrity" biographies ...

(Sometimes I'm sad I even remember some names ... There's only so much crap one should be asked to take in to live in society ...)

TIL Google had a Yahoo Answers clone...

Not exactly a clone, you had to pay to get answers on Google Answers.

> "Asker-accepted answers cost $2 to $200. Google retained 25% of the researcher's reward and a 50 cent fee per question. In addition to the researcher's fees, a client who was satisfied with the answer could also leave a tip of up to $100." [0]

I'm quickly understanding why I've never heard of Google Answers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers

It turns out advertising is still more profitable than charging users.

Correct!

^G^G^G We have a winner, folks.

I’d prefer ^D^D^G.

omg how is http://answers.google.com/ still up and running with a 2-generations obsolete UI framework.

But look how fast it is!!

Thanks, saw it in my lecture notes a while ago and figured it was a formatting error...

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