Or you disappear down the rabbit hole and you find that 9/10 of the tutorials / references you're reading are completely wrong or outdated. Seriously, I don't

Or you disappear down the rabbit hole and you find that 9/10 of the tutorials / references you're reading are completely wrong or outdated. Seriously, I don't know if it's as bad in the network world, but I reckon PHP tutorials were the reason SQL injection was as prevalent as it was.