[waffles2021]

Before Google, and before there was actually content on the Internet, it was the MSDN documentation CDs and about 20-30 very large books.

People scoff these days about stack overflow, but we were more reliant on examples in print that sometimes wouldn't work. Stack overflow is just a resource only slightly les trustworthy than a first edition manual. On the flip side, most coding was quite simple, but for internet work you needed to know perl or c++ as well.