This is an interesting point. You made me think about it. The interaction with the internet evolved over time, but it was handicaped by biases - and probably t

This is an interesting point. You made me think about it. The interaction with the internet evolved over time, but it was handicaped by biases - and probably the language barrier as well -. At the beginning, it was mainly to get books, and follow "general" discussions in forums. Books - maybe due to a cultural bias - always felt like the "right way" to learn. The "community" part was really absent from my mind. This was enforced, unfortunately, with the overwhelming experience of seeing someone's code and not understanding anything. Somehow, my fallback after such experience was: I need to study more books. It is difficult to explain, but there was a mental leap here that I didn't make for few years. Overtime though, this changed.