[davismwfl]

I don't have any concern over having to use the internet to reference things or find samples that save time.

In the 90's I had a large book collection that I used for learning and for reference which served similar purposes. That plus the man pages and SDK docs you got with libraries was basically your goto. And even then, we still had programming forums (BBS) and usenet for finding help and samples.

Oh and if/when you did Microsoft programming keeping the MSDN docs on your machine was an option, which was like 4Gb if you installed it all.

FWIW: I do fairly often write code without internet but if I am using a library I am unfamiliar with or need to do something that is less common I'll save some docs or key web pages locally to help me.