“The little child looked at him eagerly!
He wanted to know when will it snow!
He was not taught before and by anyone!
That stare you can but unless you ask, how will you know!”
The other day in a group it was argued that a good Guru or teacher is someone who does not prevent you from asking questions! If you do not ask then you will never know!
As the song from Journey goes, “So many messages lost in silence!”
Of course when we were young (er!) asking questions was frowned upon and this was the norm! You simply had to do what you are told! It was army in all the forms of life whether at home or at school! Which is why many times most of us have been trained to just follow and not question! Maybe the reason why innovation takes time to come!
The go to people those days to ask questions were our immediate seniors and siblings or cousins!
In medical college it was the seniors and peers!
Now of course you have Dr Google who has the answer to everything except your future!
One of the popular sites for question and answers was actually started by couple of Facebook folks who started asking questions!
So a Question-and-Answer site lets people ask questions and receive answers from anyone who is willing and hopefully knowledgeable enough to reply.
Question-and-Answer sites have been around since the creation of the Internet!
Sites like, Ask Jeeves and Answers.com, were the the trailblazers to the new trend. Ask Jeeves, launched in 1997 and became an overnight hit with millions of users visiting the site looking to have their burning questions answered. Jeeves of course was the Intelligent Butler starring in P G Wodehouse books! In fact his quotes are still golden! So just like in the novel ask Jeeves site knew the answer to all of your questions which could be posted in conversational language or by keyword searches!
Then came another revolution in form of Yahoo! Answers! So while Yahoo! was officially incorporated on March 2, 1995, and was created by Jerry Yang and David Filo, the website began as a search directory for various websites, and soon grew into an established Internet resource that featured the “Yahoo! Answers” platform! Officially Yahoo! Answers was launched in mid-2005 and Answers was finally made available for general availability on May 15, 2006. Yahoo! Answers was created to replace Ask Yahoo!, Yahoo!’s former Q&A platform which was discontinued in March 2006.
Finally the website which can lay the Numero Uno claim to the number one site for Q and A is; Yes! Quora! At least that is the situation whenever you place any question in Google and you are sure to get an answer!
Now when you have several answers to one questions then the issue is which answer is correct!?
Like even the question about the origin of name has several answers in Quora! Like one says the full form definition(s) of the acronym or abbreviation “QUORA” is: “Questions or Answers (Internet » Websites ).” “QUORA” means a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users! While another answers says that the name comes from the root word quorum, which represents many people coming together to accomplish a common goal! Another answer says Quora is believed to be a combination of the words “query” and “ora”, which means “voice” in Latin!
So Quora was co-founded by former Facebook employees Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever in June 2009. After consulting with friends and eliminating ones they didn’t love, they narrowed it down to 5 or 6 finalists, and eventually settled on Quora. The closest competition that Quora had was Quiver!
The world and Quora now has lots of answers to your questions but which is the best one for you is the million rupees question now! Of course the answer to the question of who is one of the first Indian artists to use oil paints and to master the art of lithographic reproduction of his work? The answer is obviously the birthday celebrity Raja Ravi Varma! Now for many Indian artist he is the answer to all questions but since I dabble only in black and white sketches, the dedication reflects my answer!
Now log out of Quora and sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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