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@codevsdev Big chunky books, a lot of lectures, and talking to other people. You know, picking up the phone. Joining events, etc.
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@codevsdev There were always Docs, they were in the revolutionary form called “books” back then.
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@codevsdev People used to go to college and read books. Funny eh?
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@codevsdev There were always docs. Some computers even came with a BASIC manual. Magazines had code samples and we had to copy them line by line.
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@codevsdev I started with a spiral bound book for BASIC. It's all clocks man. Gears on gears. Once you understand loops and iteration, the rest is jazz.
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@codevsdev lol - there was, each computer shipped with manuals..
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@codevsdev some of the best memories i have is from scavenging local book stores trying to figure out how the hell protected mode worked. Then one day .. i found a DOS system manual, it had LDT and GDT bit structures in it.. never been so happy :D </nerd>
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@codevsdev they didn't .. coding was invented by LLMs in 2023 right?
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@codevsdev There were docs, just not like you are used to. Mostly hard-copy. Printed words on real paper.
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@codevsdev Time, they where given more time, patience and respect.
You read the man, you try to run cmd, you fail, you try again, you make update notes, you try again, you succeed and then you do it 100+ times in a week.
Boom next item, you have a datacenter in your head.
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@codevsdev It's called books. Go open one. You might learn something.
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@codevsdev Books, I have a bunch with dust on them. If AI takes out the grid I can use them to start a fire in the winter to keep warm
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@codevsdev There were always docs, official docs, man pages, BOOKS. Coding languages didn't just come out without any instruction.
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@codevsdev it was mostly manuals and a lot of trial and error tbh... def not as easy to get unstuck back then
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@codevsdev We had these things called books
They were made of paper
The docs were printed on those pages of paper
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@codevsdev The ancestors had an ancient method. When someone came up with new ideas they could use it to record information so other people could learn from it later, even after they themselves had died. I remember the old ones talking about it when I was small, they called it “book”.
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