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{{Short description|Question-and-answer website for computer programmers}}

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{{Infobox website

| name = Stack Exchange, Inc.

| logo = Stack Overflow logo.svg

| screenshot = StackOverflow.com Top Questions Page Screenshot.png

| caption = Screenshot in June 2022

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| content_license = {{unbulleted list|[[Creative Commons license|CC BY-SA]] 2.5 (until April 2011)|CC BY-SA 3.0 (until May 2018)|CC BY-SA 4.0}}

| type = [[Knowledge market]]<br />[[Q&A website|Question and answer]]

| language = {{org/web/20210214111921/https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/09/15/stack-overflow-launches/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

| language = {{hlist|English|Spanish|Russian|Portuguese|Japanese}}

| registration = Optional

| owner = [[Prosus]]

| author = [[Jeff Atwood]] and [[Joel Spolsky]]

| CEO = Prashanth Chandrasekar

| launch_date = {{start date and age|df=yes|2008|9|15}}<ref>{{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 site|question-and-answer website]] for [[computer programmers]]. It is the flagship site of the [[Stack Exchange|Stack Exchange Network]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sewak|first=M.|title=Finding a Growth Business Model at Stack Overflow, Inc.|journal=Stanford CasePublisher|date=18 May 2010|volume=Rev. 20 July 2010|issue=2010–204–1|url=http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee204/Publications/Finding%20a%20Growth%20Business%20Model%20at%20Stack%20Overflow.pdf|access-date=23 May 2014|publisher=Stanford University School of Engineering|id=204-2010-1|display-authors=etal|archive-date=13 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813013908/http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee204/Publications/Finding%20a%20Growth%20Business%20Model%20at%20Stack%20Overflow.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Stack Exchange Network Legal Links |url=https://stackexchange.com/legal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820103131/http://stackexchange.com/legal |archive-date=20 August 2014 |access-date=2012-01-02 |work=Stack Exchange |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web

|title = Stack Exchange API

|url = https://stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service

|author = Stack Overflow Internet Services, Inc.

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|date = 2010-06-08

|access-date = 2010-06-08

|work = Stack Apps

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|author = Jeff Atwood

|archive-date = 14 March 2009

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090314173417/http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001169.htmlcweb

|url-status = live

}}</ref> It features questions and answers on certain [[computer programming]] topics.<ref>{{cite web

|title = Secrets of social site success

|url = http://www.sdtimes.com/SHORT_TAKES_APRIL_15_2009/About_SHORTTAKES/33403