Yahoo Answers
Founded 2005 · Peak: 200 million
Why Yahoo Answers mattered
Yahoo Answers was the internet's biggest open Q&A platform. 200 million users. The Internet Archive preserved a 4.75 TB dump. When Yahoo pulled the plug, Quora became a paywall and Stack Exchange covers only narrow technical topics.
How SENTINEL brings it back
SENTINEL Q&A is the AI-augmented replacement: ask anything, get an instant Qwen 2.5 14B answer running on our local GPUs. Then humans add expertise. Voting, best-answer, categories.
Why this matters in 2026
Big Tech killed every great community-driven internet tool between 2008 and 2024. Yahoo Answers was one of them. SENTINEL is the unified replacement — 10 intelligence modules in one AI-powered platform, running on owned infrastructure (no AWS, no Google Cloud), free forever for personal use, no third-party tracking, no behavioral ads. Built by Oblivion Technologies LLC.
All AI runs on local Llama and Qwen models — no OpenAI bills, your data never leaves our server. Stripe-powered subscriptions for paid tiers, free forever for the basics.