Originally Posted by
choddo
Better with text than seeing someone actually doing it?
Is it not just that you knew how to do all the basic stuff they cover in those videos before youtube came along?
Better skimming some text than waiting impatiently for that part of the video that actually shows what you need to know.
Although partly, yes - I was messing with bikes 20 years before I sat in front of a i486DX2* running at 33 MHz with 8MB RAM, loaded Windows 3.11 from the C:\> prompt and launched Mosaic. Those were the days, eh?
* I'm guessing about the hardware, it was a generic PC of the time.