I'm not sure it was Google as much as the web in general (+Google). When I started coding in the mid 90's, if there was a topic I wanted to learn about, I need

I'm not sure it was Google as much as the web in general (+Google). When I started coding in the mid 90's, if there was a topic I wanted to learn about, I needed to find a book about it. From there, I could walk though the book, skip the parts I already knew, and after reading the examples in the book, I'd have a pretty good idea and I could go off and write my code. Doing this, I accumulated a pretty large collection of (mainly O'Reilly) books. Now, you just do a Google search for a topic, and you're flooded with examples and people explaining how to do X in Y. My book collection stopped growing in about 2003. That's not even covering error messages and APIs... being able to Google a specific error message is wonderful. And I couldn't imagine coding again without immediate access to the language APIs online.