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Just being able to lookup something really quick while you're learning is much more efficient than waiting the next day to ask your teacher

Is it, really? Before we had the Internet and Stackexchange we had manpages, the library and your own brain. When you put in an effort to solve your problem it's better for understanding than looking up the solution.

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Yes, we can't overlook the fact that critical thinking is needed before searching for the solution but I see Internet as just one of many tools but with better feedback than libraries/manpages/britanica etc. What might have taken me few minutes or hours to find can be found in less time giving me more time to spend on the subject that I'm learning.

Not everything is in a library, I remember writing off to all many of companies and organisations asking for literature about their products and such like.

It took ages. Of course all of that can be done almost instantly with webpages. Although now I'm drowning in broweser tabs.

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