I don't understand this. Back in the early days of the internet, you absolutely couldn't learn 'how to do it' without finding obscure books or knowing someone. Now though? You can learn all of it, and find the resources almost instantly. Want to build a computer, self host, program, you have millions of resources at your hand.

>you absolutely couldn't learn 'how to do it' without finding obscure books...

QBasic's bultin help/documentation was good enough for me..