What Was It Like To Program Before Stack Overflow?
Life before the Q&A platform for programmers
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6 min readMay 17, 2021
It may be hard to believe, but there was a period in time when Stack Overflow wasn’t a real website and when the term essentially just meant that you ran out of memory in your application for some unknown reason — a reason that you couldn’t look up on Stack Overflow. The irony is not lost on me.