Well, this was deleted for the second time recently so I suppose a proper epitaph is due.

The joke question was a fixture of the very, very early days of Stack Overflow, marked by exuberance and experimentation.

It was never a programming question; most of the answers were not programming answers. It is of a kind with questions like "Best place to meet female programmers (for romance)?" - the best argument you could make for it being on-topic was that its text contained the word "program".

And it did not age well.

When first it was deleted in '11, many remembered it fondly; by '18, we mostly just got complaints about it. Long ago locked, frozen in time and immune from edits or other forms of curation, it had clearly reached a point in time when whatever value it might've offered to the greater Internet paled in comparison to the cost of keeping it.