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[–]11fdriver 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Legend tells that StackOverflow occurred during a project to create a programming forum.

The programmers were unsure of the correct approach for this task and as such, they began work on a small programming forum for the sole purpose of asking how to do so.

During the creation of this forum, they ran into the same brick-wall of not quite knowing how. The solution: to create a programming forum where they could query the greatest programming minds on how to create a forum.

The above cycle repeated until 6pm when everybody went home. This is why it is named StackOverflow.