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[–] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

While I don't miss checking the index of my wall of Microsoft books (the light gray binders with the squishy plastic). At least those were (mostly^1^) correct and ad free.

Then the future began and you got MSDN subscription on CD with sample code. Woohoo.

  1. they included a somewhat 20 pages of erratas that you sooner or later managed to memorize or punch and put in the correct place.