[stingraycharles]

Yup. I remember in 2005 I was teaching my fellow students a “debugging” course, which was of course not normally part of a curriculum. It basically involved “copy / paste your compiler error into Google and tada.wav, you’ll have mailing lists or Usenet or blog posts about your issues”.

SO changed some of that landscape, but it was mostly a better ExpertsExchange.

[lowbloodsugar]

I remember ExpertsExchange. What a PITA. SO is a better ExpertsExchange in the same way a car is a better horse. Not showing me the fucking answer would probably be #1 usability issue for a site I visited to "show me a fucking answer".