‘Can babies see ghosts?’ The best of Yahoo Answers

After 16 years, one of the internet's first - and most surreal - Q&A platforms is to be shut down

Before Reddit's Am I the Asshole? forum for the frustrated moral philosopher", or days-long Twitter debates about whether you wash your legs in the shower, there was Yahoo Answers: one of the first online crowdsourcing resources, now a repository of infamously idiosyncratic wisdom.

Established in 2005, the knowledge-sharing" platform was where you might turn for help with a head-scratcher such as How do I get black ink from a Biro out of coloured clothes?", What documents do you need to enter China?" or Any ladies want to show me their boobs?".