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For me, it was a lot of forums, mailing lists, and Planet Source Code.

• vezzy-fnord 11y ago
  To this day, mailing lists remain the authoritative sources for technical problems beyond the cursory.
  • harakiri 11y ago
    I found mailing lists to be the most annoying, prehistoric and bizarre way of getting help for anything other than dying...
    • Amorymeltzer 11y ago
      They can be useful. About six or seven years ago I subscribed to a few perl ones, then I created a rule in Gmail to tag them all with a label and skip the inbox. Never heard from them again. Now, though, if I have a perl question, my first step is just searching my email. After years of aggregating, it's got some solid answers.
• yitchelle 11y ago
  For me, it was the usenet, and specifically comp.lang.c and comp.arch.embedded. It was quite entertaining and useful, but that was way before it become Google groups and the spammer bots discovering it.