Oh yeah, and there were downloadable ebooks (HTML) in the early day of the web too, when landline connection was measured by connection time (so reading online

Oh yeah, and there were downloadable ebooks (HTML) in the early day of the web too, when landline connection was measured by connection time (so reading online was expensive as hell). I learned HTML/JS/CSS, Perl, PHP, Java, C, Linux, etc. all that way, with ebooks. Was a great time before Stackoverflow, when you really learned concepts, not looked for solutions :-)