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{{Infobox website
| name = Stack Exchange, Inc.
| logo = {{Dark mode switch|[[File:Stack Overflow DarkMode Logo.svg|
| screenshot = StackOverflow.com Top Questions Page Screenshot.png
| caption = Screenshot in June 2022
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| 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
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'''Stack Overflow''' is a [[Question-and-answer site|question-and-answer website]] for [[computer programmers
|title = Stack Exchange API
|author = Stack Overflow Internet Services, Inc.
|date = 2010-06-08
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|work = Stack Apps
|archive-date = 26 April 2011
|archive-url =
|url-status = live
}}</ref> Stack Overflow features questions and answers on certain [[computer programming]] topics,<ref>{{cite web
|title = Secrets of social site success
|url
|work = [[SD Times]]
|date = 2009-04-15
|access-date = 2009-04-16
|author = Alan Zeichick
|archive-url =
|archive-date = 26 April 2009
|url-status = dead
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| work = Slashdot
| date = 2008-09-16
| access-date = 2009-05-23
| archive-date = 16 May 2009
| archive-url = https:
| url-status = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|title = Google Tech Talks: Learning from StackOverflow.com
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|author = Joel Spolsky
|publisher = YouTube
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|access-date = 2009-05-23
|archive-date = 4 May 2019
Stack Overflow 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> and was created to be a more open alternative to earlier question-and-answer websites such as [[Experts-Exchange]]. The website was sold to [[Prosus]], a Netherlands-based consumer-internet conglomerate, on 2 June 2021 for $1.8 billion.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dummett|first=Ben|date=2 June 2021|title=Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion|publisher=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400|access-date=2 June 2021|archive-date=29 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029175938/https://www.wsj.com/articles/software-developer-community-stack-overflow-sold-to-tech-giant-prosus-for-1-8-billion-11622648400|url-status=live}}</ref>
▲Stack Overflow 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>{{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 of the website can earn [[Reputation system|reputation points]] and "badges"; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an "up" vote on a question or an answer to a question,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/13/were-rewarding-the-question-askers/|title=Were Rewarding the Question Askers|date=13 November 2019 |access-date=20 November 2019|archive-date=16 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116115224/https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/11/13/were-rewarding-the-question-askers/|url-status=live}}</ref> and can receive badges for their valued contributions,<ref>{{cite web | url = https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation | work = Stack Overflow | title = What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it? | access-date = 14 August 2010 | archive-date = 9 June 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130609062938/http://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation | url-status = live }}</ref> which represents a [[gamification]] of the traditional Q&A website. Users unlock new privileges with an increase in reputation like the ability to vote, comment, and even edit other people's posts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges|title=List of privileges|access-date=22 November 2017|archive-date=14 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214143308/https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges|url-status=live}}</ref>
{{As of|2025|06}}, Stack Overflow has over 29 million registered users, and has received over 24 million questions and 36 million answers.<ref>{{Cite web|title=All Sites – Stack Exchange|url=https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#questions|access-date=2025-06-11|website=stackexchange.com|archive-date=8 June 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250608151607/https://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#oldest|url-status=live}}</ref> The site and similar programming question-and-answer sites have globally mostly replaced programming books for day-to-day programming reference in the 2000s, and today are an important part
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