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I feel I can get a quite detailed understanding of DOS, Windows 3.11, even Windows 95 from printed books and reference materials of the time.

But I feel much of the documentation/reference around things from 2010 is both late enough that it wasn't printed, and old enough that what was online has failed or faded away.

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It helps that stable versions lasted a lot longer back then, and things moved around a lot less.

Nowadays if you need to change a setting, you not only have to contend with major version but what biannual revision of windows you are using, and hope that someone at Microsoft hasn't decided to move that option in an update.

Even the documentation that is still around is disorganized and useless. I want a linear path I can follow to learn something, not some random collection of hyperlinks to more information.

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