I was about 25 years ago, the main thing I remember was having a "The <programming language Bible" on your desk. Several inches thick and really before there wa

I was about 25 years ago, the main thing I remember was having a "The <programming language Bible" on your desk. Several inches thick and really before there was anything like Stack Overflow there was this and maybe the occasional rudimentary blog you found to assist. It felt like true discovery back then. Oh and before PHP came about it was mostly CGI-Bin <vom>