The Q&A board Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4. When I heard the news, my first sympathetic thought was for the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me; I wasn’t the only person to think of it. This 11-year-old show hosted by brothers Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy took the weirdest stuff Yahoo Answers had to offer and riffed on it; the resulting show, which interspersed “Yahoos” (as they called them) with listener questions, has been in the top comedy podcasts list on iTunes for years. The McElroys now have a podcast empire, and listeners like me have held on as the brothers moved across the country and back again, became parents, and grew up. The fact that all this happened because, for 16 years, a tech company hosted an online space where oddballs could ask if it was OK to bring jellybeans on a plane, or how to unbake a cake, is a little miracle of the internet.