ma Imagine learning something "out of school" on your own, books back then were a gold mine for inide's. Also, we had paywall city pre 2010 on a lot of solid education(that is literally free right now), so books were cheaper and more technically dense. IMHO. 😆 (I have 2 in that image still, lots more books about design patterns, refactoring and UML stuff, really dry stuff)