Kinda a Big Announcement
&gt; almost anyone I talk to is too young to imagine The Days Before Stack Overflow, when the bookstore had an entire wall of Java and the way you picked a Rich Text Editor was going to Barnes and Noble and browsing through printed books for an hour, in the Rich Text Editor Component shelf.<p>I remember the &quot;Days Before Stack Overflow&quot; and Joel is giving himself a bit too much credit here. Before SO, when I googled a problem I would often find a solution on a blog, personal website, or some community&#x27;s PHPBB&#x2F;vBulletin forum. Remember, this was 2008 we&#x27;re talking about. The UX was undoubtedly less consistent, but it&#x27;s not like we were rushing off to the library to look up PHP functions and CSS 3-column layouts.