[BeefWellington]

Yeah, between various forums and blogs and the later-renamed expertsexchange you could often find answers. It was SO before SO until they started to plaster it with ads.

I've seen plenty of examples on SO where the accepted answers are actually wrong. Not wrong as time has moved on, wrong even at the time. Early SO is especially guilty of this kind of cult of personality that built up around certain people, so whenever they answered they would be given the accepted answer, even if it was wildly incorrect and/or low effort.

It's an incredibly useful resource but it's not as though if it disappeared tomorrow people wouldn't find a way.