I sometimes wistfully look back to the days where I had a bunch of books and printouts open on my desk for programming. Of course, that's more than likely romanticizing things quite a lot...

I remember in middle school I had the giant Visual Basic 3 book, and it was... amazing, but looking back, super annoying to deal with, always having to lug it around, dig through the table of contents and index to find what I was looking for, etc.

So much easier now to just type a query into a search engine.