This was written in 2004, the year of Google's IPO. Atwood and Spolsky didn't found Stack Overflow until 2008. [0] People knew things as the "Camel book" [1] an

This was written in 2004, the year of Google's IPO. Atwood and Spolsky didn't found Stack Overflow until 2008. [0] People knew things as the "Camel book" [1] and generally just knew things. 0. https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/14/podcast-400-an-oral-history-of-stack-overflow-told-by-its-founding-team/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/14/podcast-400-an-oral-hi... 1. https://www.perl.com/article/extracting-the-list-of-o-reilly-animals/ https://www.perl.com/article/extracting-the-list-of-o-reilly...