From StackOverflow to ChatGPT: The Death of the Forum Era

🧑‍💻 Back When We All Worshipped StackOverflow

There was a time let’s call it the Forum Era when every developer lived and died by StackOverflow.

If your code broke, you didn’t fix it you searched it.
You’d type a desperate query like:

“python list index out of range please help”

…and boom. There it was: a wall of text, ten slightly different answers, and one blessed green checkmark.

That green checkmark? That was gospel.

It was the holy symbol of the internet’s most beloved ritual: Googling your way out of chaos.

⚙️ The Ritual of Trial and Error

Let’s be honest: debugging used to feel like archaeology.

You’d dig through old forum posts from 2012.
Someone named CodeMaster_42 would have written a half-correct solution.
Then another person would comment,