For even more nostalgia you could go back pre Internet, the search for the right book on the thing you were trying to achieve. You had to go to a technical book store and physically scan the shelves, buy it and read it.
If we can also apply this to network engineers, that would be awesome. No more waiting 2 weeks for a firewall rule. But how many places actually have tech writers these days.. mostly devs will be asked to write documenation.