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{{Short description|Question-and-answer website for computer programmers}}
▲| screenshot = StackOverflow.com Top Questions Page Screenshot.png
| caption = Screenshot in June 2022
| url = {{Official URL}}
| commercial = Yes
| programming_language = [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]]
| content_license = type = [[Knowledge market]]<br />[[Q&A website|Question and answer]]▼
▲| type = [[Knowledge market]]<br />[[Q&A website|Question and answer]]
| language = {{hlist|English|Spanish|Russian|Portuguese|Japanese}}
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Prosus]]
▲| launch_date = {{start date and age|df=yes|2008|9|15}}<ref name="launches">{{cite web |access-date=2014-07-07 |url=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html |title=Stack Overflow Launches |last=Spolsky |first=Joel |date=2008-09-15 |publisher=Joel on Software |archive-date=14 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214111921/https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/09/15/stack-overflow-launches/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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'''Stack Overflow''' is a [[Question-and-answer term of use site|question-and-answer website]] for [[computer programmers]]. It is the flagship site of the [[Stack
|title = Stack Exchange API
|url = https://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service
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}}</ref> It was created in 2008 by [[Jeff Atwood]] and [[Joel Spolsky]].<ref name="introducing">{{cite web |author=Jeff Atwood |date=2008-04-16 |title=Introducing Stackoverflow.com |url=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001101.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203112658/http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001101.html |archive-date=3 February 2010 |access-date=2009-03-11 |work=Coding Horror |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|title = None of Us is as Dumb as All of Us
|url = http://www.codinghorror.com/
|url-status = live
}}</ref> It features questions and answers on certain [[computer programming]] topics.<ref name="secrets">{{cite web
|title = Secrets of social site success
|url =
|-url = https://web.archive.org/web/2009
|archive-date = 26 April 2009
|url-status = dead
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| access-date = 2009-05-23
| archive-date = 16 May 2009
▲}}</ref><ref name="google-tech-talks">{{cite web
|title = Google Tech Talks: Learning from StackOverflow.com
|url =
▲ |archive-date = 4 May 2019
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190504031536/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ
|url-status = live
}}</ref> It was created to be a more open alternative to earlier question and answer websites such as [[Experts-Exchange]]. Stack Overflow was sold to [[Prosus]], term of use a Netherlands-based consumer internet conglomerate, on 2 June 2021 for $1.8 billion.<ref>{{cite
The website serves as a platform for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down similar to [[Reddit]] and edit questions and answers in a fashion similar to a [[wiki]].<ref name="fashion">{{cite web | url = http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/the-gamification.html | work = Coding Horror Blog | author = Jeff Atwood | date = 2008-09-21 | title = The Gamification | access-date = 2011-01-24 | archive-date = 1 February 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140201063225/http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/the-gamification.html | url-status = live }}</ref> Users term of use Stack Overflow can earn [[Reputation
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