Comment by adolph

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-hi...

1. https://www.perl.com/article/extracting-the-list-of-o-reilly...