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> Am I even a competent developer if I have to use the Internet every five minutes to code?

It just means you are slowed down by the need to look things up. Do you consider speed part of competency?

The ability to look everything up on the internet didn't appear until the late 90's. I finished my BSEE + MS CompSci degrees before 1994, effectively without the modern internet. We had manpages. And enormous books. All that's really changed is most pop languages don't have manpages, but at least we aren't killing forests for the X specification printouts!