In 1975, my high school's "Independent Science Study" class took a field trip to the Crerar Library at the U of Chicago[1]. In the stacks was a paper on AI that changed my life[2].

It was a 3 hour drive, each way. Now it takes 3 seconds.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/h3xCccBMQDBqQXhD7

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1460833.1460840