Imagine this: You're a DevOps engineer or SW Engineer at StackOverFlow.

Plot: Stackoverflow is down, you can't search for the solution cause Stackoverflow is down.

Question : Is it just to consider this as a recursive problem?

How did people create SO in the first place?

After all, no dev even knows how to breathe and shit without looking it up on SO (or using a jQuery plugin).

@Fast-Nop SO was created for people seeking answers and egoistic nerds looking for people to correct.

@dronesawake and how did the SO devs create SO when there was no SO for looking up solutions?

Back in the day we used various forums (a lot of phpBB forums) on different websites.

SO user evolution.

Level one: Cop and paste every solution into your code until it works at least you think it works and repeat.

Level two: You get a feeling for the right solution and copy paste it.

Level three: You don't need So anymore and use other resources like MDN or devRant 😉

@52cal ah, the good ol' days

But to answer you're question: there was once a time when we devs built things from scratch without copy/paste solutions.

Also, a SO dev would have downloaded the most recent SO archive and use SO offline 😉

But... you know, some devs still remember how to do things ourselves.

@52cal man I'm too new skool for that. Sounds like shit was cool

@C0D4 baller :)

@JackToolsNet Woah, reading actual documentation, now that's next level shit!

@JackToolsNet and once in a while your issue is so fucked up and against all documentation you have to get back to two. And when you get really desperate you will use one.

And then you find out you forgot to import a file.

@Codex404 in very difficult cases, I sometimes even read error messages.

@Codex404 I once got so desperate I started reading comments off the library code cause the shit had no documentation available anywhere online

@Codex404 well well. In my case everytime I start something new I'm back in level one 😁

We used to have shelves collapsing under the weight of books.

I will try and find a picture of a book for those who have never seen one. They were made out of paper, or something, I believe.

@platypus you... you don't mean these old and mysterious things do you?

@C0D4 Yes. That looks like it. But it's been so long I can't be sure.

If anyone has a shelf with a complete set of Delphi manuals, please post. I'm all nostalgic now.